What the Dev?

In this episode, Dave interviews Dan Ciruli, senior director of product management at Nutanix (and ex-Googler), about the history of Kubernetes. They discuss:

• What was going on at Google that led to the creation of Kubernetes
• The importance of getting the industry to agree on a non-vendor-specific way of deploying workloads
• Initial concerns from VM vendors about being replaced by containers
• The story behind Kubernetes' name and logo

This episode originally aired on 5/8/25 on our sister podcast, Get With IT, where we discuss topics related to ITOps. 

In this episode, Dave interviews Priti Naik, vice president of architecture at Chase, about the company's Expert Engineering (E2) program.

They discuss:

• What the program involves 
• What prompted its creation
• How graduates stay updated on new technologies and trends

In this episode, Jenna interviews Zohar Einy, CEO of Port, about engineering feedback loops.

They discuss:

• The purpose of engineering feedback loops
• Where most organizations go wrong
• What makes feedback actually actionable

Thank you to Broadcom for sponsoring this episode. Learn more about their VSM offerings here: https://www.broadcom.com/products/software/value-stream-management

In this episode, Dave interviews Jean-Louis Vignaud, head of ValueOps at Broadcom, about how VSM and AI are coming together.

They discuss:

• The business implications of using AI in VSM
• Concerns around data privacy and proprietary information in AI
• Recapping Broadcom's recent VSM Summit

In this episode, Jenna interviews Dean Coclin, senior director of Industry Strategy at DigiCert, about the recent vote by the CA/Browser Forum to shorten the lifespan of TLS certificates to 47 days by 2029. 

They discuss:

• The schedule for the changes and the gradual increments lifespans will shorten by
• The rationale behind shortening certificate lifetimes
• How to start preparing for changes

DigiCert will be hosting a webinar on this topic on May 6 called "Unpacking Certificate Changes: Live Expert Q&A." Register here: https://digicert.registration.goldcast.io/events/2c6c723b-5725-4406-9289-6df8ddd20f93?referrer=https://www.digicert.com/&referrer=https://www.digicert.com/&referrer=https://www.digicert.com/&referrer_page=a28f9ca5-7abf-4ce2-9b6b-571e50e49239

Read an article based on this episode here: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/preparing-for-tls-certificate-lifetimes-dropping-from-398-days-to-47-days-by-2029/

In this episode, Dave Rubinstein interviews Heikki Linnakangas, co-founder of Neon, a company that provides Postgres solutions. 

They discuss: 

• The factors that have contributed to adoption of PostgreSQL
• Why PostgreSQL has leapfrogged over MySQL in popularity
• What to expect in PostgreSQL 18

In this episode, Jenna Barron interviews Antje Barth, principal developer advocate for generative AI at AWS.

They discuss:

• The skills that are becoming more important as AI adoption increases
• The emergence of the AI engineering role
• The trend of "vibe coding"

Resources:

Amazon Q Developer

Episode transcript

In this episode, Jenna Barron speaks with Emilio Salvador, vice president of strategy and developer relations at GitLab, about AI agents in software development. 

Key talking points include: 

• How AI agents compare to traditional forms of automation in the software development process
• Challenges teams may face when implementing agents
• The impact AI agents will have on the role of software developers

In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Jeremy Edberg, CEO of DBOS, about the current state of serverless.

They discuss:

• Why serverless adoption has stagnated
• The complexity of serverless architecture
• What needs to change to increase adoption

In this episode, Jenna Barron interviews Simon Ritter, deputy CTO of Azul, about the six features in Java 24 he thinks are most exciting, including faster startup times for Java apps, improvements to the Stream Gatherers API, and more. 

Learn more about Java 24 here: https://sdtimes.com/java/java-24-is-now-available-with-release-of-stream-gatherers-class-file-apis/