The Importance of Having a Unique Background

In today’s episode, Jason and Patrick dive deeply with JFrog’s Senior Solutions Engineer, Bill Manning. With the conversation tackling the depth and complexity of software supply chains, vulnerabilities and more, Bill deftly offers grounded advice to listeners old and new.

00:00:26 Introductions

00:00:40 Bill’s plethora of job titles

00:09:33 The excitement of learning a language

00:15:08 Mechanical keyboards

00:21:17 Bill’s advice on adapting

00:27:55 What a supply chain is

00:34:28 Castle analogies

00:40:55 Unpacking legalities

00:52:11 Log4J

00:54:41 What JFrog does

01:01:16 What can go wrong

01:08:08 Getting started in this space

01:14:15 Careers in JFrog

01:20:23 Farewells

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• Links:
  • Bill Manning:
    • Website: https://about.me/billmanning
    • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williammanning/
    • Twitter: https://twitter.com/williammanning
  • JFrog:
    • Website: https://jfrog.com/
    • Careers: https://join.jfrog.com/
    • Artifactory: https://jfrog.com/artifactory/
    • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jfrog-ltd/
  • Others:
    • Liquid Software: https://liquidsoftware.com/
    • SolarWinds hack incident: https://www.wired.com/story/the-untold-story-of-solarwinds-the-boldest-supply-chain-hack-ever/
    • Transitive dependencies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitive_dependency

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• 153: ChatGPT: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2023/03/153-chatgpt.html

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