In this episode, we interview Cameron van Orman, chief strategy & marketing officer and GM of Automotive Solutions at Planview. He has a lot of insight into software-defined vehicles and what goes into making them, and offers thoughts on: 

• How automakers are adapting to merge digital experiences into their cars
• Ensuring predictability and visibility into the software supply chain of vehicles
• What goes into making sure these complex software systems don't fail in any capacity
• Subscription services driving up the total cost of ownership for car owners
• Technical debt at auto manufacturers

In this episode, SD Times news editor Jenna Barron interviews Brian Hopkins, VP of Emerging Tech Portfolio at Forrester, about the company's Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2024 list.

They talk about:

• The shift from generative AI to agentic AI
• How AI agents are giving way to a number of other emerging technologies
• Splitting generative AI into two categories: text and visual
• How AI is influencing security advances

Read the list: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/top-10-emerging-technologies-for-2024/ 

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein interviews Arthur Hicken, chief evangelist at Parasoft, about the recent CrowdStrike outages.

They talk about:

• How we've become complacent in being okay with not knowing the quality standards of the software we use
• The battle between productivity and technical debt
• Are companies updating software too frequently?

Transcript: https://sdtimes.com/test/qa-lessons-not-learned-from-crowdstrike-and-other-incidents/ 

In this episode, SD Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein speaks to Konrad Niemiec, founder and CEO of Lekko about: 

• What feature flags are
• "Stale flags" and why they're an issue
• Why dynamic feature flags helps cut down on stale flags

In this episode, we speak to Bec Rumbul, executive director and CEO of the Rust Foundation, about the new Safety-Critical Rust Consortium, a subgroup dedicated to advancing the use of the Rust language in safety-critical software, such as automotive, aerospace, healthcare, utilities, etc. 

She talks about:

• Why Rust is a good choice for these applications
• Why they're focusing on providing more support to developers using Rust in these safety-critical software
• The goals of the consortium. 

Learn more about the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium here: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/safety-critical-rust-consortium-forms-at-the-rust-foundation/
Transcript: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/qa-on-the-rust-foundations-new-safety-critical-rust-consortium/

In this episode, Jenna Barron interviews Madeleine Corneli, lead product manager of AI/ML at Exasol, about how companies can assess the actual ROI of their AI investments. 

Key talking points include:

• What metrics to track
• How to analyze metrics and adapt
• Figuring out the right questions to ask
• Advice for getting started tracking metrics related to AI

In this episode, SD Times News Editor Jenna Barron interviews Andrew Lau, CEO and co-founder of Jellyfish, about Jellyfish's 2024 State of Engineering report. Some of the main findings were that 65% of respondents experienced burnout in the last year and that engineers are now having more of a say in business strategy than they have in the past.

Key talking points:

• The factors contributing to burnout today
• What leaders can do to cut down on burnout
• Engineers are now informing business strategy

Referenced in this episode: 
Jellyfish's 2024 State of Engineering Management Report: https://jellyfish.co/resources/2024-state-of-engineering-management-report/
Our writeup of the report: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/report-software-engineers-increasingly-seen-as-strategic-business-partners/
Jellyfish's 5-9 podcast: https://jellyfish.co/5-to-9-podcast/ 

In this episode, SD Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Brandon Jung, VP of ecosystem and business development for Tabnine about his concerns with Apple's partnership with OpenAI, which was announced alongside Apple Intelligence as a way to pull in real-world knowledge from ChatGPT for questions Apple's own model cannot answer. 

They discuss: 

• Why it's surprising that Apple decided to partner with OpenAI
• The lack of transparency into Apple's own model
• Why open source models are better for innovation

In this episode, David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of SD Times, speaks with Michelle Avery, group VP of AI at WillowTree, a TELUS International Company, about a recent survey the company did on rude chatbots.

Key talking points include: 

• What we mean by "rude bot behavior"
• What goes into creating a chatbot that is polite
• How organizations can measure politeness of a chatbot
• On the flip side, humans can be rude to bots too

In this episode, Jenna Barron, news editor of SD Times, interviews Andrew Tunall, head of product at Embrace, a mobile observability company. 

They talk about:

• What it takes to get mobile observability right
• The challenges companies might face when trying to get observability into mobile apps
• OpenTelemetry's role in mobile observability 

Access Embrace's open source mobile observability SDKs here: https://github.com/embrace-io

In this episode, SD Times news editor Jenna Barron interviews Phillip Carter, principal product manager for Honeycomb's AI offerings. 

Key talking points:

• Experienced developers will derive greater value from these tools than newer devs
• Testing is one area where they're really helpful for devs regardless of experience level
• Getting past the hype of what the creators of these tools are promising and setting realistic expectations
• How tools will get better for developers over time

*This episode sponsored by Broadcom*

In this episode, SD Times Editor in Chief David Rubinstein talks to Laureen Knudsen, chief transformation officer at Broadcom. They recap Broadcom's 2024 VSM Summit and look forward to what's coming next year. 

To access the summit on-demand: https://enterprise-software.broadcom.com/vsm-virtual-summit-2024-on-demand 
To nominate a company for next year's Wavemaker: Broadcom.com/wavemaker

While we largely talk about AI's impact on software development here at SD Times, the reality is that AI will impact nearly every discipline, from business to finance to education to journalism. The University of Maryland recently launched Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM) as a collaborative hub for AI research across different departments and subjects.

Hal Daumé III, AIM's inaugural director and a Volpi-Cupal Family Endowed Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, joins us in this episode to talk about AIM's formation, goals, and the role educators have in teaching students how to use AI to properly prepare them for the future workforce. 

In this episode, Jenna Barron, news editor of SD Times, is joined by Gina Tran, director of product for Bitwarden. They talk about the ever growing problem of secrets getting leaked into production, and why it happens. They also talk about how to prevent this problem and what improvements she has seen in secrets management practices over the last couple of years.

Related reading:
1. The key to successful secrets management is to make the best way the easiest way
2. Implement a good secrets management practice to reduce your security risk

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein interviews Mik Freedman, senior director of VMware Tanzu Labs. 

They talk about anti-patterns in Agile and how by identifying them, developers can advance their Agile software development practice. 

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein interviews Kim Mirazimi, chief revenue officer at KMS Technology and Nilesh Patel, senior director of software services at KMS Technology.

They talk about how testing can improve a company's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization), which is a way of measuring profitability. Kim and Nilesh make the case that by improving testing, organizations can lower costs and deliver higher quality software product more quickly. 

This episode was sponsored by KMS Technology. Learn more about them here: https://kms-technology.com/

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein interviews Adam Gluck, CEO and founder of Copia Automation, about using DevOps practices in the manufacturing sector and how many of the principles transfer. 

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses the current state of value stream in the industry and what organizations can do to improve their value streams.

His guest is Laureen Knudsen, chief transformation officer at Broadcom.

Check out the 2024 Value Stream Management Summit here.

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses how cognitive fatigue is compounding the software productivity problem. 

His guest is Hans Dockter, CEO at Gradle Inc. and lead at Gradle Open Source Project.

In this episode, we speak with Duane Pozza, former assistant director of the FTC and AI lawyer at Wiley Rein, about President Biden’s executive order on AI and the European Union’s AI Act, and what impact those will have on AI technology. 

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses the creation of Winglang, a programming language for the cloud

His guest is Shai Ber, co-founder and COO at Wing Cloud.

In this episode we interview Erin Boyd, director of emerging technologies at Red Hat, about where platform engineering fits into the technology landscape, how organizations are implementing platform engineering teams, and how important this new discipline will become as companies are looking to deliver business value from AI.

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses AI-powered software development and some of the challenges that creates. 

His guest is Derek Holt, CEO at Digital.ai. 

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein speaks with Scott Ambler software engineer, consultant and author of many books including Disciplined Agile Delivery about how companies can determine whether they are truly data driven. 

In this podcast episode,  SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein talks about using code to train AI, especially with open-source code.

Joining him is Chris Wright, CTO and Senior Vice President of Global Engineering at Red Hat.