What the Dev?

In this episode we speak to Tom Kincaid, senior vice president of database servers and tools at EDB and Jozef de Vreis, chief product engineering officer at EDB. Both are contributors to PostgreSQL, so they came on to talk about the new features in Postgres 17, which is now available (Note: episode was recorded prior to the release, which is why you'll hear it being referred to as an "upcoming" release).

Key talking points include:

• Why Postgres remains so popular
• Expanded JSON support in this release
• The addition of incremental backup 

This episode was sponsored by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. 

In this episode, we interview Ram Iyengar, chief evangelist of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, about the role of buildpacks in software development today.

Key talking points include:

• The importance of the buildpacks community 
• Korifi, Cloud Foundry's platform for creating and deploying applications on Kubernetes
• Where Cloud Foundry fits in a Kubernetes world
• The importance of giving developers better tooling 

Further resources:
Article: Transition application code to images with Cloud Native Buildpacks
Webinar: From Source to Container – Gaining Productivity with Open Source Paketo Buildpacks

In this episode, we interview Matt Johnston, CEO of GitKraken, about developer experience. 

Some key points we discussed during our conversation include:

• Platform engineering as a component of developer experience
• How DevEx attracts top talent
• What "developer joy" is

In this episode, we spoke with Tushar Katarki, senior director of product for Red Hat's GenAI Foundation Model Platforms Portfolio, about some of the issues companies may run into when trying to implement generative AI. 

Key talking points include: 

• The rush to AI
• Challenges companies run into
• The human factor of AI implementation and use

This episode originally aired on our other ITOps focused podcast, Get With IT. To subscribe to that show, visit here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2114207 

In this episode we speak to Evan Kaplan, CEO of InfluxData, a pioneer and leader of time series data.

Key talking points: 

• Why specialized databases are needed for collecting time series data
• The challenges of storage and compression
• Integration of time series data with training AI

In this episode, we speak with David Ross, Agile evangelist for Miro, about some of the misconceptions people may have about Agile today.

Key talking points include: 

• How Agile was perceived 15-20 years ago vs today
• The realization that prescriptive frameworks aren't always effective 
• The importance of flexible tool sets that support evolving workflows
• How AI will impact team size and composition

In this episode, we speak with Rob Whiteley, CEO of Coder, about OpenAI's recent announcement of CriticGPT, a new AI model that provides critiques of ChatGPT responses in order to help the humans training GPT models better evaluate outputs during reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLFH). According to OpenAI, CriticGPT isn't perfect, but it does help trainers catch more problems than they do on their own.

Key talking points include:

• The downsides of having AI testing the quality of other AI models
• Why it's important to be specific about what types of errors the model is allowed to look for
• Is this another example of rushing into AI?

In this episode, we interview Cameron van Orman, chief strategy & marketing officer and GM of Automotive Solutions at Planview. He has a lot of insight into software-defined vehicles and what goes into making them, and offers thoughts on: 

• How automakers are adapting to merge digital experiences into their cars
• Ensuring predictability and visibility into the software supply chain of vehicles
• What goes into making sure these complex software systems don't fail in any capacity
• Subscription services driving up the total cost of ownership for car owners
• Technical debt at auto manufacturers

In this episode, SD Times news editor Jenna Barron interviews Brian Hopkins, VP of Emerging Tech Portfolio at Forrester, about the company's Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2024 list.

They talk about:

• The shift from generative AI to agentic AI
• How AI agents are giving way to a number of other emerging technologies
• Splitting generative AI into two categories: text and visual
• How AI is influencing security advances

Read the list: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/top-10-emerging-technologies-for-2024/ 

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein interviews Arthur Hicken, chief evangelist at Parasoft, about the recent CrowdStrike outages.

They talk about:

• How we've become complacent in being okay with not knowing the quality standards of the software we use
• The battle between productivity and technical debt
• Are companies updating software too frequently?

Transcript: https://sdtimes.com/test/qa-lessons-not-learned-from-crowdstrike-and-other-incidents/