In this episode, we spoke with Trisha Gee, lead developer advocate at Gradle, about flaky tests and the challenges of dealing with them.

Key talking points:

• What is a flaky test?
• How can they be identified?
• How can they be prevented in the future? 

Other useful resources on flaky tests: 

• Develocity’s Flaky Test Detection
• Trisha’s recent Flaky Test webinar 
• Trisha’s Blog - How Top Banks Handle Flaky Tests
• Desirable Unit Tests By Kent Beck
• Martin Fowler's Definition of a Contract Test 
• Your Tests are Failing You! (video) 
• 5 Reasons Your Automated Tests Fail (video) 

In this episode, we spoke with Derek Holt, CEO of Digital.ai, about the emerging practice of software engineering intelligence (SEI). At the end of last year, he predicted that "SEI will have a breakout year in 2025 as more and more businesses realize they need to measure the end-to-end business process of software development and delivery in order to drive continuous improvement, truly deliver improved developer experiences and ultimately realize the potential gains for an AI-powered Software Development and Delivery capabilities."

We invited him on the podcast to dive into that prediction further, and we discussed:

• What SEI is
• Why it's gaining traction this year
• How it differs from value stream management, and why it will be more successful

Read all 2025 predictions here: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/predictions-for-software-development-in-2025/

In this episode, we interview Scott McCarty, senior principal product manager of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, about what we can look forward to in 2025 when it comes to containers. 

Key talking points include:

• Cross-platform use cases for containers
• Bending containers to do more for us
• An overview of bootc and how it fits into the future of containers

In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Brian Fox, co-founder and CTO of Sonatype. They discuss the company's 10th annual State of the Software Supply Chain report. 

Key talking points include: 

• The rapid growth of malicious open-source components
• The increasing length of time needed to remediate vulnerabilities
• How regulations impact supply chain security

Note: This will be the final episode of What The Dev released in 2024. We'll be back in early January 2025! 

In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Mohamed Lazzouni, CTO of Aware, a company that offers identity verification services. They discuss the current state of biometric authentication, including its challenges, user experience, and ethical considerations. They also talk about concerns regarding deepfakes and the countermeasures to protect against them.

In this episode, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Tanner Burson, vice president of engineering at Prismatic, about how AI might be destabilizing development pipelines. 

They discuss:

• The lack of long-term thinking around AI in development
• Why AI-generated code is hard to understand and maintain
• Issues with using AI to verify code

Transcript: https://sdtimes.com/ai/podcast-the-negative-long-term-impacts-of-ai-on-software-development-pipelines/ 

In this episode, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Tobi Knaup, VP and general manager of cloud native at Nutanix. They discuss how AI is driving innovation in Kubernetes, and also how AI adoption is driving people to Kubernetes. 

In this episode, news editor Jenna Barron interviews Julianna Lamb, co-founder and CTO of Stytch, about how to evolve your engineering processes.

They discuss:

• How the dynamic of a team contributes to engineering efficiency
• How to play to the strengths of everyone on the team
• The benefits of engineers having ownership over the work they're doing

In this episode, SD Times news editor Jenna Barron interviews Christophe Sauthier, head of CNCF certifications and trainings, about the benefits of getting a certification. 

They discuss:

• CNCF's recently created Kubestronaut achievement, which developers can get for completing all five of the organization's Kubernetes certifications
• How certifications can improve a developer's career
• What to look for when thinking about getting a certifications

This episode was sponsored by Lucid Software, a provider of a visual collaboration suite for developers. Learn more here: https://lucid.co/ 

In this episode, David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of SD Times, interviews Jessica Guistolise, evangelist at Lucid Software, about how visual collaboration can improve developer experience.

They discuss:

• Challenges with gaining visibility in software development
• The value of visualizations
• How visual collaboration streamlines Agile development

Resources: 
https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/accelerating-innovation-how-the-lucid-visual-collaboration-suite-boosts-agile-team-efficiency/