Developer relations (DevRel) is an important role within the development space, acting as a liaison between a company making development tools and the developers actually using those tools. Recently, the Linux Foundation announced its intent to form the Developer Relations Foundation to support people in that career. On the most recent episode of our podcast, … continue reading
The Eclipse Foundation recently conducted a report on open source in the Global South, the region of the world which the United Nations defines as “the developing and emerging industrial economies across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and Oceania.” To learn about the findings of the report and what they mean, we spoke with … continue reading
Buildpacks help ease the burden on developers by taking source code and turning it into fully functional apps. To learn more about this technology, we interviewed Ram Iyengar, chief evangelist of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, on the most recent episode of our podcast, What the Dev? Here is an edited and abridged version of that … continue reading
Time series data is an important component of having IoT devices like smart cars or medical equipment that work properly because it is collecting measurements based on time values. To learn more about the crucial role time series data plays in today’s connected world, we invited Evan Kaplan, CEO of InfluxData, onto our podcast to … continue reading
In this week’s episode of our podcast, What the Dev?, we spoke with David Ross, Agile evangelist for Miro, about some of the misconceptions people have about Agile today, and also how Agile has evolved since its early days. Here is an edited and abridged version of that conversation: Where do you see the change … continue reading
Every year, Forrester puts together a list of 10 emerging technologies to watch. This year’s list was released in June, and in the most recent episode of our podcast, What the Dev?, we were able to sit down with Brian Hopkins, VP of Emerging Tech Portfolio at Forrester, about the list. Here is an edited … continue reading
When an event like the CrowdStrike failure literally brings the world to its knees, there’s a lot to unpack there. Why did it happen? How did it happen? Could it have been prevented? On the most recent episode of our weekly podcast, What the Dev?, we spoke with Arthur Hicken, chief evangelist at the testing … continue reading
Many development teams are beginning to experiment with how they can use AI to benefit their efficiency, but in order to have a successful implementation, they need to have ways to assess that their investment in AI is actually providing value proportional to that investment. A recent Gartner survey from May of this year said … continue reading
According to a recent report from Jellyfish, 65% of respondents said they experienced burnout in the last year. To dig deep into why that’s happening at such a high rate, we invited the company’s CEO and co-founder, Andrew Lau, onto the latest episode of our podcast, What the Dev? Here’s an abridged and edited version … continue reading
Assisting development with AI tools can be quite a decisive topic. Some people feel they’re going to replace developers entirely, some feel they can’t produce good enough code to be useful at all, and a lot of people fall somewhere in the middle. Given the interest in these types of tools over the last few … continue reading
The rise of data streaming has forced developers to either adapt and learn new skills or be left behind. The data industry evolves at supersonic speed, and it can be challenging for developers to constantly keep up. SD Times recently had a chance to speak with Michael Drogalis, the principal technologist at Confluent, a company … continue reading
DevOps has been a talking point in the development space for about a decade, but despite its age, some feel it’s still in its early days. One such person with that belief is Steve Kearns, the vice president of product management at Elastic, who joined SD Times podcast “What the Dev?” to explain his reasoning. … continue reading
As organizations have shifted to a mobile-first approach, they’ve found that testing for the sheer number of devices and operating systems out there has become a real challenge. The most important thing in getting started with mobile app testing is ensuring quality by defining a profile of the end users to select the required mobile … continue reading
Climate change is an issue that affects all of us, and as time passes on, it becomes more difficult to ignore the problem. Every industry plays some part in contributing to climate change and the technology industry is no exception. On this week’s episode of the SD Times podcast “What the Dev?” SD Times Editor-in-Chief … continue reading
