In this episode, we interview Scott McCarty, senior principal product manager of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, about what we can look forward to in 2025 when it comes to containers. 

Key talking points include:

• Cross-platform use cases for containers
• Bending containers to do more for us
• An overview of bootc and how it fits into the future of containers

In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Brian Fox, co-founder and CTO of Sonatype. They discuss the company's 10th annual State of the Software Supply Chain report. 

Key talking points include: 

• The rapid growth of malicious open-source components
• The increasing length of time needed to remediate vulnerabilities
• How regulations impact supply chain security

Note: This will be the final episode of What The Dev released in 2024. We'll be back in early January 2025! 

In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Mohamed Lazzouni, CTO of Aware, a company that offers identity verification services. They discuss the current state of biometric authentication, including its challenges, user experience, and ethical considerations. They also talk about concerns regarding deepfakes and the countermeasures to protect against them.

In this episode, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Tanner Burson, vice president of engineering at Prismatic, about how AI might be destabilizing development pipelines. 

They discuss:

• The lack of long-term thinking around AI in development
• Why AI-generated code is hard to understand and maintain
• Issues with using AI to verify code

Transcript: https://sdtimes.com/ai/podcast-the-negative-long-term-impacts-of-ai-on-software-development-pipelines/ 

In this episode, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Tobi Knaup, VP and general manager of cloud native at Nutanix. They discuss how AI is driving innovation in Kubernetes, and also how AI adoption is driving people to Kubernetes. 

In this episode, news editor Jenna Barron interviews Julianna Lamb, co-founder and CTO of Stytch, about how to evolve your engineering processes.

They discuss:

• How the dynamic of a team contributes to engineering efficiency
• How to play to the strengths of everyone on the team
• The benefits of engineers having ownership over the work they're doing

In this episode, SD Times news editor Jenna Barron interviews Christophe Sauthier, head of CNCF certifications and trainings, about the benefits of getting a certification. 

They discuss:

• CNCF's recently created Kubestronaut achievement, which developers can get for completing all five of the organization's Kubernetes certifications
• How certifications can improve a developer's career
• What to look for when thinking about getting a certifications

This episode was sponsored by Lucid Software, a provider of a visual collaboration suite for developers. Learn more here: https://lucid.co/ 

In this episode, David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of SD Times, interviews Jessica Guistolise, evangelist at Lucid Software, about how visual collaboration can improve developer experience.

They discuss:

• Challenges with gaining visibility in software development
• The value of visualizations
• How visual collaboration streamlines Agile development

Resources: 
https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/accelerating-innovation-how-the-lucid-visual-collaboration-suite-boosts-agile-team-efficiency/ 

In this episode, SD Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Ayah Bdeir, senior strategic advisor at Mozilla, about the Open Source Initiative's (OSI) effort to define Open Source AI.

Key talking points include:

• Why there's a need to have a definition for open source AI
• The controversy over how to classify training data
• Mozilla's collaboration with OSI on this work 

Open Source AI definition: https://opensource.org/osd 

In this episode, SD Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Stacey Kruczek, director of developer relations at Aerospike and steering committee member of the Developer Relations Foundation.

They talk about why developer relations is important, including why the Developer Relations Foundation was formed.

Key talking points:

• What a DevRel does
• How developer relations elevates the role of developers
• The future of developer relations

Transcript: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/qa-why-the-developer-relations-foundation-is-forming/