

What the Dev?
SD Times
What the Dev? is a podcast by the SD Times editorial team. We cover the biggest and newest topics in software development.
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Apr 20, 2021 • 15min
Commitments to digital transformation are high but IT is often unsure where to start - Episode 99
In this week’s podcast episode, we talk about The Digital Transformation Progress Report in which Digital.ai surveyed 600 IT pros to get a sense of where they are in their digital transformations.We spoke to Derek Langone, the president of Digital.ai to find out more about the key takeaways from the report.

Apr 13, 2021 • 18min
Developers look to online learning options for upskilling - Episode 98
In this week's episode, we spoke with Don Jones, Head of Developer Skills at Pluralsight, about how developers can improve their skills through online learning options. Pluralsight is also hosting #FreeApril and is making most of their skills platform available for free throughout the month of April. Visit pluralsight.com for more information.

Apr 6, 2021 • 16min
Adopting an Agile mindset during the pandemic - Episode 97
This week we talk to Emilia Breton, a mom of two and a Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Coach, about how she adopted an Agile mindset with her family to respond to the pandemic and adjust to the realities of work from home life.

Mar 30, 2021 • 15min
Open-source meets DevSecOps with Checkmarx's Stephen Gates - Episode 96
In today’s podcast, we talked about the use of open-source technology in DevSecOps and what the pros and cons of implementing it in security strategies are with Stephen Gates, a security evangelist and senior solutions specialist at Checkmarx.Also, be sure to listen to our other podcast episode where Stephen Gates provides great insights on All about KICS, the open source solution for static code analysis of Infrastructure as Code - Episode 92

Mar 23, 2021 • 20min
Embedded Analytics with Logi Analytics' Charles Caldwell - Episode 94
In this week's episode, we spoke with Charles Caldwell, VP of Product Management at Logi Analytics, about embedded analytics, how companies can use it to gain more insights, and some example use cases.

Mar 18, 2021 • 16min
What the Dev(Ops)? - A new DevOps assessment model from the DevOps Institute - Episode 93
In this episode, we talked about how organizations can assess their DevOps efforts together with Jayne Groll, the CEO of the DevOps Institute, which recently rolled out a crowd-sourced assessment of DevOps capabilities. As DevOps has become an enterprise objective and an enterprise program, the ability to understand the capabilities of the team and the entire enterprise was essential to understand where you are, where you're going and have you gotten there.

Mar 16, 2021 • 21min
All about KICS, the open source solution for static code analysis of Infrastructure as Code - Episode 92
In today’s podcast, we talked about KICS, which is an open-source project for securing infrastructure as code together with Stephen Gates, a security evangelist and senior solutions specialist at Checkmarx, the company driving the effort. We talk about why infrastructure as code has seen a tremendous rise and about the origins of the KICS project.

Mar 11, 2021 • 18min
How to make enterprises secure in a hybrid, remote world - Episode 91
Today’s episode is on security in a hybrid remote world about what the threat landscape looks like today and how organizations are positioning themselves to deal with it. To talk about the matter, we have Rey Bango, a developer and security advocate at Veracode.

Mar 9, 2021 • 22min
Going passwordless in the enterprise - Episode 90
In today’s podcast episode we’ll be covering passwordless and username-less authentication can increase security by reducing the risks of phishing and all forms of username and pass word theft and to provide for a more frictionless authentication experience. To learn more, we spoke to Ben Goodman, a CISSP and SVP at ForgeRock.

Mar 4, 2021 • 12min
How Bridgecrew's new solution helps developers catch coding issues in their IDEs - Episode 89
This week we spoke to Barak Schoster Goihman, the CTO and co-founder of Bridgecrew, a company in the DevSecOps space, to talk about their solution that helps developers catch issues in code as they’re in their IDEs.


