AI-driven DevSecOps
Find out how to build trust and accountability in a fully remote team in this CTO podcast featuring Sabrina Farmer, CTO @ GitLab. You will also hear how Sabrina draws on her experience in AI, DevSecOps, and her 19 years at Google to rethink the developer experience.
Listen to find out:
How Gitlab's CEO Challenge encourages developers to innovate and automate away historic challenges (e.g. Log4js)
Why DevOps is just problem-solving 🕵️♀️ at all levels of the stack
How to use AI to create teaching moments 💡 in the developer workflow
How GitLab onboards quicker with detailed documentation📝 (no tribal knowledge)
Listen here
Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction to the Alphalist Podcast
(00:43) Meet Sabrina Farmer: GitLab's CTO
(02:33) Remote Work at GitLab
(03:39) Trust and Accountability at GitLab (Part 1)
(04:49) ReadMe at GitLab
(06:04) Problem Solving and Computer Science
(09:40) Having an Impact: The Appeal of DevTools
(11:27) Helping People Go Beyond Their Limits
(13:03) AI Strategy
(16:25) Monolith vs. Microservices?
(18:19) What is DevSecOps
(21:50) Creating Teaching Moments for Developers Using AI
(25:05) Future of Security in the Next 5 Years
(25:30) More Data Privacy Aware
(27:44) GitLab's CEO Challenge: Encourage Developers to Innovate and Automate Away Historic Challenges Like Log4js
(31:43) Choosing AI Models
(33:35) Getting Developer Buy-In with AI
(37:29) Use AI to Free You Up So You Can Think Strategically
(37:48) Use AI Responsibly - Do Due Diligence
(39:59) Trust and Accountability at GitLab (Part 2)
(44:02) Satya Nadella as Inspiration
