alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders

How to Secure your App I spoke with Andreas Schranzhofer, CTO of Scalable Capital about the best ways to secure an app. Scalable Capital is a Neo-Broker and robo-advisor based in Munich with over 250 million in funding. Learn about app security from someone highly experienced in running an app in the highly regulated FinTech 💰 industry. Learn: Why you need both security and obfuscation 🛡️ How to prevent Supply Chain and Ransomware attacks 🦹‍🤑 What external tools he uses in the Software Development Cycle 🛠️ BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Okta and Fastly Okta This episode is kindly sponsored by Okta Customer Identity Management. If you're transforming into a digital platform and facing identity management challenges, listen closely now, because Okta offers THE market-leading solutions to help you make identity & access management work as a service. A platform that offers endless ways to connect with your employees and customers.Get support for your most important customer-facing initiatives: Integrate identity & access into every app and create secure and engaging experiences in no time by outsourcing workforce or customer identity management to Okta. Get started in 15 minutes and test IAM or CIAM as a service. Create a frictionless registration and login experience for your applications and make identity the foundation for your Zero Trust strategy and enable access for all users—regardless of their location, device, or network. okta Fastly This episode is again kindly supported by Fastly, the biggest challenger in the CDN market and a solution I personally use. Fastly is pushing ahead the technical boundaries and is from my personal perspective the best solution on the market. Fastly is one of the key drivers of the "edge cloud trend". Well-known customers of Fastly are Shopify, The New York Times, Reddit, Github and many many more. If you want to try it all with first class support, just go to fastly.com/alphalist

Testing in Production, Getting Rid of Hierarchy and other Thoughts on Socio-Technical Leadership I spoke with Charity Majors, CTO of HoneyComb, prolific Twitter user, and blogger. WHO TESTS IN PRODUCTION. 😱 And is proud of it. She also shares her insight into socio-technical leadership, observability, and databases. Learn: The importance of a tight feedback loop 🔁 Why the maximum deploy time should be 15 minutes. 🕒🚀 How microservices make engineers jobs harder😓 Why she wants to do away with hierarchies to increase job satisfaction 😀 BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Fastly and Okta Fastly This episode is again kindly supported by Fastly, the biggest challenger in the CDN market and a solution I personally use. Fastly is pushing ahead the technical boundaries and is from my personal perspective the best solution on the market. Fastly is one of the key drivers of the "edge cloud trend". Well-known customers of Fastly are Shopify, The New York Times, Reddit, Github and many many more. If you want to try it all with first class support, just go to fastly.com/alphalist Okta This episode is kindly sponsored by Okta Customer Identity Management. If you're transforming into a digital platform and facing identity management challenges, listen closely now, because Okta offers THE market-leading solutions to help you make identity & access management work as a service. A platform that offers endless ways to connect with your employees and customers.Get support for your most important customer-facing initiatives: Integrate identity & access into every app and create secure and engaging experiences in no time by outsourcing workforce or customer identity management to Okta. Get started in 15 minutes and test IAM or CIAM as a service. Create a frictionless registration and login experience for your applications and make identity the foundation for your Zero Trust strategy and enable access for all users—regardless of their location, device, or network. [okta ](https://www.okta.com/free-trial/customer-identity/

AIOps and the Future of DevOps ‘PagerDuty raises 90 million to wake up more engineers in the middle of the night.’ read a recent headline. Highlighting both the recent funding and also its unpopular but necessary job. However, Alex Solomon of PagerDuty is working on making the DevOps world more efficient with on-call-management, AIOps, and automating routine debugging tasks. He shares with us about: On-Call Management: The only notifications 🔔 that provide a better Work/Life Balance How AIOps and Runbook Automation 🤖are the future of DevOps (+other trends) Partner vs Compete: Why they became an ecosystem How he grew his B2B Saas Startup 🚀 BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Dell This episode is proudly presented by Dell Technologies. Dell has a team of experts that helps you solve all of your IT-related challenges and IT needs in your daily business. They also are available to guide you in choosing the right end-to-end IT-solutions or products. They offer IT-technology solutions for companies of any size, tailored to their needs and have a huge product portfolio with it-solutions and know-how. They can help CTOs through providing end2end it solutions… be it laptops, pcs, workstations or server, storage, cloud, IoT solutions or financing If you want to know more, please check the show notes to get a link. Dell and Fastly Fastly This episode is again kindly supported by Fastly, the biggest challenger in the CDN market and a solution I personally use. Fastly is pushing ahead the technical boundaries and is from my personal perspective the best solution on the market. Fastly is one of the key drivers of the "edge cloud trend". Well-known customers of Fastly are Shopify, The New York Times, Reddit, Github and many many more. If you want to try it all with first class support, just go to fastly.com/alphalist

Cloud Native Technologies: Edge Computing, Kubernetes, Containers and Open Source We spoke with Cheryl Hung of Cloud Native. She runs the ecosystem of over 600 members contributing to over a hundred open source projects. She also started the Cloud Native London meetup where she promotes developer advocacy and diversity. As an early adopter of kubernetes, she has a lot to share! Cheryl shared with us: The importance of Developer Advocacy 👩‍💻 How Edge Computing is the next frontier in Cloud Native ☁️ Why kubernetes is not for everyone 📦and has to become easier Why End-User companies should contribute to the Open Source 🆓 Her childhood dream of becoming a Google Engineer and where she is holding with it! Listen here: https://alphalist.podigee.io/30-cheryl-hung-cloud-native-computing-foundation Join us in welcoming our First Female Guest.. and send us more because we are missing out! Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1512227295 || Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/08QvFNH32V1yRiwfNQhTYx || Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/show/1202312 BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Fastly and Dell Fastly This episode is again kindly supported by Fastly, the biggest challenger in the CDN market and a solution I personally use. Fastly is pushing ahead the technical boundaries and is from my personal perspective the best solution on the market. Fastly is one of the key drivers of the "edge cloud trend". Well-known customers of Fastly are Shopify, The New York Times, Reddit, Github and many many more. If you want to try it all with first class support, just go to fastly.com/alphalist Dell This episode is proudly presented by Dell Technologies. Dell has a team of experts that helps you solve all of your IT-related challenges and IT needs in your daily business. They also are available to guide you in choosing the right end-to-end IT-solutions or products. They offer IT-technology solutions for companies of any size, tailored to their needs and have a huge product portfolio with it-solutions and know-how. They can help CTOs through providing end2end it solutions… be it laptops, pcs, workstations or server, storage, cloud, IoT solutions or financing If you want to know more, please check the show notes to get a link.

EU vaccination passes and other uses of crypto and blockchain for verification We spoke to Matthias Jugel, the co-founder of ubirch, the company behind the 🇩🇪 German digital vaccination passes 💉His technology has generated over 30 million vaccine passes giving Germans their summer holidays back! And they launched in a matter of weeks! We discussed What was involved in creating digital vaccine passports that worked OFFLINE and allow movement around the EU 🇪🇺 Blockchain verification ✔️ and its applications in pharmaceuticals⚕️, car insurance 🚘 and manufacturing 🏭 what he learnt from launching a national program in less than a month! 📆 Listen on Apple: || Spotify: || Deezer BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Sastrify and Fastly Sastrify Thanks a lot to my friends at Sastrify for sponsoring this episode. A lot of CTOs I know are responsible for procurement of software as a service tools by accident and never have the time and energy to work on optimizing their costs. For example: at my company OMR, we have a lot of tools… Gsuite, Adobe creative cloud, Newrelic and many more. Sastrify helps companies like ours to optimize those costs & negotiate with suppliers of such software. In our case they helped us to save around 20.000€ per year, which is a lot if you look at our company size of around 150 people. It is a simple and hassle-free process we went through and I can just recommend anyone listening to do the same. They actually promise to save more money than they cost. They are already working with a lot of alphalist members such as Runstatic, Westwing and Emma. They are giving a 50% discount for the first 3 months to all podcast listeners so go to www.sastrify.com/alphalist to get started today Fastly This episode is again kindly supported by Fastly, the biggest challenger in the CDN market and a solution I personally use. Fastly is pushing ahead the technical boundaries and is from my personal perspective the best solution on the market. Fastly is one of the key drivers of the "edge cloud trend". Well-known customers of Fastly are Shopify, The New York Times, Reddit, Github and many many more. If you want to try it all with first class support, just go to fastly.com/alphalist

AI trends and applications We spoke to Rasmus Roth, leader in AI space- he has 5 products just based on machine learning. What is involved in productising and commercialising a machine learning-based service 📈➡️💰 The need for ML ops 👨‍💻 Google Cloud vs AWS vs Azure and why he doesn’t stick to one ☁️ AI and its applications in medical field ⚕️, autonomous driving 🚘and BI 📊 His go-to resources for libraries, ML ops and conferences BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Fastly and Sastrify Fastly This episode is again kindly supported by Fastly, the biggest challenger in the CDN market and a solution I personally use. Fastly is pushing ahead the technical boundaries and is from my personal perspective the best solution on the market. Fastly is one of the key drivers of the "edge cloud trend". Well-known customers of Fastly are Shopify, The New York Times, Reddit, Github and many many more. If you want to try it all with first class support, just go to fastly.com/alphalist Sastrify Thanks a lot to my friends at Sastrify for sponsoring this episode. A lot of CTOs I know are responsible for procurement of software as a service tools by accident and never have the time and energy to work on optimizing their costs. For example: at my company OMR, we have a lot of tools… Gsuite, Adobe creative cloud, Newrelic and many more. Sastrify helps companies like ours to optimize those costs & negotiate with suppliers of such software. In our case they helped us to save around 20.000€ per year, which is a lot if you look at our company size of around 150 people. It is a simple and hassle-free process we went through and I can just recommend anyone listening to do the same. They actually promise to save more money than they cost. They are already working with a lot of alphalist members such as Runstatic, Westwing and Emma. They are giving a 50% discount for the first 3 months to all podcast listeners so go to www.sastrify.com/alphalist to get started today

Eric Johnson, CTO of GitLab, discusses managing remote teams, using git for everything, servant-leadership vs situational leadership, and balancing parenthood and career. They also explore the benefits of remote work, importance of taking time off, and factors in hiring and determining salaries.

This Podcast episode is DOOMed 🔥🌋😈🧟🕯👿☠👹🦹 I had the chance to talk to John Romero, the inventor of DOOM, Wolfenstein and Commander Keen and founder of id Software about Developing games in the early 90s and how they developed DOOM in a crazy small team Developing games in 2021 and how it’s still possible to develop games with only a single person team The crazy amounts of money they made with DOOM 🤑💶🤑 The crazy amounts of energy drinks they consumed Why not he would not start developing a game engine again Thanks a lot John! Was really fun talking to you.

Tim O'Reilly, Founder & CEO of O'Reilly Media, discusses writing as a superpower, the origins of OSCON and great nerdy 90s, the tectonic 'Platform changes' and algorithmic rents, wrong incentives in our economy, and our role in 'the machine' deciding good vs bad.

Blockchain 101 for CTOs In this episode we dive deep into the principles of Blockchain together with Peter Grosskopf who is our guest for the 2nd time. Peter recently quit his job as CTO @ Börse Stuttgart to fully focus on building a decentralized bank in the DeFi (Decentralize finance) space. We spoke about: How does a blockchain work Why to use blockchains Concrete use-cases and applications How ether works and how to get started