In this week's episode, we spoke to Sandeep Sood, the CEO of Kunai, about the growth of embedded finance and its potential for major disruption. Sood's take is "if you're not a fintech company today, you're going to become one." Listen in to find out why!

In this week's episode we talk to Steve Pereira, the founder and CEO of Visible, about the importance for value stream mapping, how to get started, how to take it beyond 101, and what to look out for along the way. You can also listen to Pereira's Virtual VSM DevCon talk on value stream mapping here, register for next year's Virtual VSM DevCon conference on March 10, 2021, or continue the conversation on our Slack community. 

In this week's podcast, we spoke to Steve Boone, the head of product management at HCL Software, about how companies are coming along in their value stream management journey. Are they adopting? What are some of the challenges they're facing? What are the benefits that they see?

Save the date! VSM DevCon is back on March 10th, 2021 to examine the benefits of creating and managing value streams in your development organization! 

In this week's podcast episode, we spoke to Veracode's Patrick McNeil and Cody Bertram about how it's becoming more important to get developers up to speed on security in today's "shift-left" world.

For a deeper dive into developers' role in security, join this webinar on September 10th at 11am ET/8:00am PT.

In today’s episode we're speaking with Brendan O’Leary, senior developer evangelist at GitLab. We discuss the ongoing conflict between speed and quality when deploying applications. He also offers guidance on how developers can succeed at both without cutting corners. 

Here are links to resources we mentioned in this episode:

Guide to remote work

GitLab Commit

In this week's episode, we talk to Catchpoint CEO Mehdi Daoudi about the company's SRE report. He talks about the struggles SREs are facing at home, as well as the role automation plays in reducing toil for SREs. 

In this week's episode we covered the debate in the open source community regarding trademarks that started after Google announced the Open Usage Commons in the beginning of July, and IBM and CNCF brought up concerns that the use of new projects and products will be left up to the interpretation of certain players, such as Google. We spoke with Heikki Nousiainen the CTO at Aiven, to find out more..

Roman Stanek, CEO of GoodData, talks about the benefits of using freemium software, the skills required to use the free version, and how IT teams should approach freemium software options. 

In this bonus podcast we talk to experts about how to successfully manage value streams, how to use value stream management to elevate Agile and DevOps practices, and what's still to come. To learn more visit https://events.sdtimes.com/valuestreamdevcon. 

This week, we spoke to Eric Schabell, the portfolio architect director at Red Hat, about Agile integration. A lot of enterprises are moving in the direction of Agile teams all with an eye on the digital transformation story where they're headed towards delivering things in a cloud native fashion. You'll hear some of the best ways in which to achieve that Agile integration.