In this year's final episode of What the Dev? before the holidays, we talk to data protection officer Sylvia Johnson about what consumers and companies need to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that goes into effect on January 1st. 

As always thank you for listening to What the Dev? and we can't wait to show you what's in store for the podcast in 2020. See you then!

In this week's episode, we talk to Kent Beck, the first signer of the Agile Manifesto and Software Fellow and Engineering Coach at Gusto, about the latest in Agile practices and about the best programmer test principles. 

As more and more businesses start to adopt a cloud-native strategy, SD Times News Editor Christina Cardoza talks to Red Hat's senior director of product strategy Brian Gracely about the state of cloud-native development, having a distributed mindset, and what other changes developers should be aware of. 

Despite years of fluctuating headset sales, the newly matured VR and AR technologies are making their way to enterprises. In this episode, we talk with Gartner analyst Tuong Nguyen and DuYe Tadeen, a researcher from the University of Rochester about where the technologies are now.

Data is becoming more prevalent than ever. We talk to Jason Beres, Infragistics Senior Vice President of Developer Tools to find out how to navigate through troves of data to gain the best business outcomes. 

 In this week’s episode, we talk with Chris Richardson, creator of Eventuate and microservices.io, that when an organization thinks “the more microservices the better” it is establishing the wrong goal and can also lead to a very fine-grained architecture. The ultimate goal should be accelerating software delivery.

The holiday season is almost here, and for that reason, it's easy to drift off and go window shopping for gifts within the very screen that you're looking at all day as a developer. In this week's show, we talk to Sean Breiman, a developer at Softheon, about productivity techniques and how to tackle the biggest pain points when the days grow long and mental bandwidth dries out. 

In our last episode coming out of the DevOps Enterprise Summit, we talk to Derek Weeks from Sonatype about how developers can work around the security vulnerabilities that come with open source code. Open source is in now more than ever, but how will DevSecOps provide developers with the peace of mind to use open source in their applications. 

In this episode of What the Dev(Ops), we talk about value stream management which is regarded by some as the most important tool for effective DevOps. We talk to Lance Knight from ConnectAll at The DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas on how to get the most out of Agile with value stream management. 

Data isn't very useful if it's not accessible. And while it might be safer to restrict developers from having sensitive data, but it doesn't help them. We talk to Robert Reeves from Datical at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas about how to jump over the roadblocks keeping developers from using data to its full potential.