This week Mike McGrath Vice President, Core Platforms for Red Hat joins us to give us the deep dive on Lightwell!
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00:50 Intro
- Iron sharpens Iron
- Feedback
01:50 Show Feedback - Joshua
- Talking fast at the end of the show
- Inserting tutorial style content
04:05 Lightwell Interview
- Mike McGrath - Vice President, Core Platforms
- What is Red Hat Lightwell
- Where Lightwell came from
- Illustration scenario
- Using AI but interfacing "Human to Human"
- Two tiers of Lightwell
- Lightwell "Network" repo
- Lightwell "Remediated" repo
- Lightwell "Undisclosed" repo
- How it works
- Does Lightwell address compliance requirements?
- Remediation
- What does using Lightwell look like?
- Software Bill of Materials
- Clearing house with SLA
- Details really matter
- Package versioning
- Scanner false positives based on versioning
- OSV.dev, Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) data
- Open Source packages, scanning and remediation
- How often does upstream reject patches?
- Has Lightwell opened doors?
- Any notable success stories?
- What does Lightwell's roadmap look like?
- Where is Lightwell appropriate?
- What metrics and KPIs should IT leaders look for?
- Walk me through a typical developer workflow
- Cost benefit analysis
- How does Lightwell integrate with existing Red Hat products?
- Previously on ANS 343, ANS 416, ANS 443, ANS 494
43:55 News Wire
GNU Core Utils 9.12 - phoronix.com
Calibre 9.15 - https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new
Thunderbird 156 - thunderbird.net
Firefox 156 - firefox.com
Gnome 51 - gnome.org
Q4OS 6.9 - q4os.org
Garuda Nix - garudalinux.org
MXLinus 25.3 - mxlinux.org
Ovirt-engine on Oracle Linux - oracle.com
Qwen Image 2.1 - qwen.ai
US District Court AI Ruling - devops.com
45:10 Microsoft Ports Co-pilot with Ai
- $120,000 in AI tokens spent to port
- 800,000 lines of code
- 5,300 human hours to review
- 16x faster based on benchmarks
- Reaction of an actual developer
- Can't put toothpaste back in the tube
- Effect of Microsoft doing this
- The Register
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