What the Dev?

The CEO of Myplanet Jason Cottrell joins us to talk about  AI-powered interactions, chatbots vs. voice-based technologies, society's perception of AI, and how developers can build these interactions with consumers in mind. 

In this week's episode, we spoke to Dr. Aaron Cheng, the Vice President of Data Science at dotData, to talk about how adopting or evaluating AI versus actually benefitting from it can be far different challenges and what are the key things that can make AI adoption at organizations successful. 

In this week's episode, we spoke with DigitalOcean VP Raman Sharma about how the open source community has evolved over the past year. We discussed DigitalOcean's recent Currents report and talked about open source involvement, compensation, and inclusivity.  

In this week’s podcast episode, we spoke to Laura Santamaria, a developer advocate at LogDNA, to talk about the evolution of logging in the modern day. When people talk about logging they mainly talk about "how do I get my system working?" But, logging is really all about data streams and thinking about how data moves through an entire computing system and how it can be used for many different use cases.  

In this week's episode we spoke to Ben Sigelman, the CEO and co-founder of Lightstep, a company that recently released Change Intelligence, which is a solution that analyzes system-wide metrics and tracing data. We covered how ML and AI doesn't do well with operational data unless there is some kind of objective or function that it can be applied to and how Change Intelligence is built to address that problem. 

Maxwell Flitton, the author of the upcoming book Rust Web Programming joins us to talk about why developers should use Rust in their web development efforts, and the tools being made available for web programming with Rust. The hands-on guide to developing fast and secure web apps with the Rust programming language will be available on March 9, 2021. Listeners can pre-order the book here, or if you order by February 20th, use this link to get a 25% discount.

In this week's episode, we spoke about the resurgence of enterprise architecture as a lot of companies are looking to put an emphasis on business outcomes. Joining us this week is Tom O'Reilly, the COO at Sparx Systems. 

In this episode, quantum evangelist for Cambridge Quantum Computing Mark Jackson joins us to talk about recent advancements in the space, the impact this will have on software development, and what's still to come for quantum computing 

40% experience network brownouts at least several times a week, while one in five organizations experience them on a daily basis, new research from Accedian shows.That's why we talked to Mike Canney, the director of business development in North America, Accedian, about how these network brownouts affect businesses that mostly work remotely, what's causing them, and ways to fix the problem. 

In this week’s episode,  we spoke about the differences between what people have traditionally called application performance monitoring and observability with Bill Staples, president and chief product officer at the observability platform provider New Relic.Gaining more granular visibility into applications has really become critical in today’s complex application environments where performance monitoring has proved to not be enough.