In this episode, SD Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Ayah Bdeir, senior strategic advisor at Mozilla, about the Open Source Initiative's (OSI) effort to define Open Source AI.

Key talking points include:

• Why there's a need to have a definition for open source AI
• The controversy over how to classify training data
• Mozilla's collaboration with OSI on this work 

Open Source AI definition: https://opensource.org/osd 

In this episode, SD Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Stacey Kruczek, director of developer relations at Aerospike and steering committee member of the Developer Relations Foundation.

They talk about why developer relations is important, including why the Developer Relations Foundation was formed.

Key talking points:

• What a DevRel does
• How developer relations elevates the role of developers
• The future of developer relations

Transcript: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/qa-why-the-developer-relations-foundation-is-forming/

In this episode, we are joined by Thabang Mashologu, VP of community at the Eclipse Foundation, who dives into the findings of the organization's recent study on the State of Open Source in the Global South.

Key talking points include: 

• The positive impact that open source is having in the Global South
• How developers are using it to drive career growth
• Using open source to solve gender inequality issues 

Download the Report: https://outreach.eclipse.foundation/open-source-global-south-developers 

In this episode we speak to Tom Kincaid, senior vice president of database servers and tools at EDB and Jozef de Vreis, chief product engineering officer at EDB. Both are contributors to PostgreSQL, so they came on to talk about the new features in Postgres 17, which is now available (Note: episode was recorded prior to the release, which is why you'll hear it being referred to as an "upcoming" release).

Key talking points include:

• Why Postgres remains so popular
• Expanded JSON support in this release
• The addition of incremental backup 

This episode was sponsored by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. 

In this episode, we interview Ram Iyengar, chief evangelist of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, about the role of buildpacks in software development today.

Key talking points include:

• The importance of the buildpacks community 
• Korifi, Cloud Foundry's platform for creating and deploying applications on Kubernetes
• Where Cloud Foundry fits in a Kubernetes world
• The importance of giving developers better tooling 

Further resources:
Article: Transition application code to images with Cloud Native Buildpacks
Webinar: From Source to Container – Gaining Productivity with Open Source Paketo Buildpacks

In this episode, we interview Matt Johnston, CEO of GitKraken, about developer experience. 

Some key points we discussed during our conversation include:

• Platform engineering as a component of developer experience
• How DevEx attracts top talent
• What "developer joy" is

In this episode, we spoke with Tushar Katarki, senior director of product for Red Hat's GenAI Foundation Model Platforms Portfolio, about some of the issues companies may run into when trying to implement generative AI. 

Key talking points include: 

• The rush to AI
• Challenges companies run into
• The human factor of AI implementation and use

This episode originally aired on our other ITOps focused podcast, Get With IT. To subscribe to that show, visit here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2114207 

In this episode we speak to Evan Kaplan, CEO of InfluxData, a pioneer and leader of time series data.

Key talking points: 

• Why specialized databases are needed for collecting time series data
• The challenges of storage and compression
• Integration of time series data with training AI

In this episode, we speak with David Ross, Agile evangelist for Miro, about some of the misconceptions people may have about Agile today.

Key talking points include: 

• How Agile was perceived 15-20 years ago vs today
• The realization that prescriptive frameworks aren't always effective 
• The importance of flexible tool sets that support evolving workflows
• How AI will impact team size and composition

In this episode, we speak with Rob Whiteley, CEO of Coder, about OpenAI's recent announcement of CriticGPT, a new AI model that provides critiques of ChatGPT responses in order to help the humans training GPT models better evaluate outputs during reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLFH). According to OpenAI, CriticGPT isn't perfect, but it does help trainers catch more problems than they do on their own.

Key talking points include:

• The downsides of having AI testing the quality of other AI models
• Why it's important to be specific about what types of errors the model is allowed to look for
• Is this another example of rushing into AI?