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. 

In this week's episode we talk to the co-founders of Netlify, a modern web development platform provider that coined the term Jamstack. Jamstack is a new rising development and architectural approach that comes with the promise of delivering a faster, more accessible, more maintainable and globally available web. 

Today’s episode is about how monetization can help make open source software more secure The anonymity of the original open source coder today means that no one is properly equipped to set up the appropriate security protocols on software utilizing the code. We spoke with Chen Ravid, the the cofounder and head of product at xs: code, to find out how developers can be incentivized to return to projects and improve security. 

In this week’s episode, we spoke to Fletcher Heisler, the director of developer enablement at Veracode about security and working from home during the pandemic and beyond. Also we talk about how developers are taking on a more active approach to security, making it a shared responsibility in organizations. 

In this bonus episode we talk to Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick, authors of the book Agile Conversations. The authors talk about five conversations teams need to have in order to build trust, alleviate fear, and reach peak performance. You can learn more from Squirrel and Fredrick at this month's Virtual VSM DevCon. Visit events.sdtimes.com/valuestreamdevcon to register today. 

With CCPA enforcement starting, privacy should be top of mind for most companies. Fastly's VP of data governance Lisa Phillips joins us to discuss the practice of data privacy by design, and lessons learned from implementing it. 

In this week's episode, we spoke with Dr. Vince Molinaro, a strategic leadership expert and author, about how communication is now more important than ever between leaders and their teams since many software development jobs are staying remote even as businesses in some areas are starting to open up.