In this week's episode we speak with Steve Stover, VP of products and strategy at SolarWinds. Steve talks about how in 2019, VC firms switched their focus from consumer tech to enterprise tech. Companies leveraging AI in enterprise products will see a lot of opportunities for funding. Please note, this episode was recorded prior to the current economic downturn caused by coronavirus and these insights were based on data from January.  

Companies are increasingly expecting more reliant analysis from their data and that data that's coming in is only expected to grow at a rapid pace. In order to capitalize on streaming data as well as scale to meet growing business demands, organizations are looking more towards continuous SQL to simplify and accelerate that process. In this week's episode, we spoke with Kenny Gorman the cofounder and CEO of Eventador which offers an enterprise-grade stream-processing-as-a-service platform. 

In this week's episode we talked to Jeff Williams, the cofounder and CTO of Contrast Security and the cofounder of OWASP, about the updated cybersecurity framework from the National Institute of Standards and T echnology. 

Open source software is the backbone of software development today, but it can be a large and complex area to navigate through. In this podcast we talk to VM (Vicky) Brasseur who wrote the book Forge Your Future with Open Source. Brasseur explains what open source means, what it entails and how you can contribute. 

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) may not sound like a web developer's problem, but there are a lot of things they can do with SEO that can improve the performance of their website. To learn more, we talked to Britney Muller, senior SEO scientist at SEO software provider Moz.

In this week's episode, we talk about robotic process automation (RPA) with Burley Kawasaki, the chief product officer at business process automation company K2, and Wayne Ariola, general manager at Tricentis RPA. 

In this week’s episode of What the Dev? we spoke to Caleb Queern, the Director of KPMG Cyber Security Services about the top 6 cyber considerations including:

• Preparing security teams for a rise in cloud-based threats
• Automating essential security tasks to reduce spend and drive a more effective program
• Building trust into consumer authentication while offering a friction-free experience
• Increasing security team business acumen to help evolve the team to being seen as a strategic, forward looking resource
• Bracing for more regulations across the board and who should help oversee the regulatory compliance program
• Aligning business goals with security needs to drive an effective security program

In this week's episode, we speak to the CEO of cloud provider Gravitational about the challenges of multi-cloud and what the benefits are. 

Kubernetes continues to grow year after year with many companies rethinking their current strategies to take advantage of its new use cases and capabilities. However, Kubernetes is not a silver bullet and companies should be careful about exactly how they re-strategize their Kubernetes efforts. In this episode, director at Canonical Stephan Fabel talks about the value of Kubernetes as well as some challenges still plaguing the project. 

SD Times is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month. News Editor Christina Cardoza talks to Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein and Publisher David Lyman about how the industry has evolved over the last 20 years and where the magazine is going.