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Open Source Software Lifecycle Management and Security with Varun Badhwar

In this episode we talk with Varun Badhwar, Founder and CEO of Endor Labs.

Pipelines as Code with Sam Alba

Show Host: Jordi Mon Companys Guest: Sam Alba

API Testing in Kubernetes with Matthew LeRay

As applications grow in size and complexity, and as they increasingly move to microservice architectures, it becomes harder for individual developers to perform end-to-end tests of an entire application stack. Connecting development services to production services is off limits. Test environments are limited to automated tests. Staging environments are woefully inadequate with the amount of data available for their use. Testing large and complex applications is becoming harder and harder. Speedscale provides developers a solution to this problem. Speedscale assists in developing and testing applications by recreating real world traffic loads in test and development environments, essentially bringing the data quality of production into the exploratory world of development. Matthew LeRay is the CTO and co-founder of Speedscale, and he's our guest today. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

Open Source Design Collaboration

API Observability with Jean Yang

Startup Investing with Ashmeet Sidana

Silicon Valley has many investors and Venture Capital firms, but most are not trying to solve hard technical problems. Engineering Capital partners with companies that are taking a technical risk. These are the companies who have some innovation where there is a doubt on whether it can even be built. Ideally, the market for this innovation exists, but nobody has bothered to build it yet, or nobody has been able to build it yet. In this episode, We sat down with Ashmeet Sidana, Founder and Chief Engineer of Engineering Capital. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Masterworks: Sign up at https://masterworks.com/sedaily Privacy Dynamics: Sign up for a free account today at https://privacydynamics.io/sedaily. Datadog: Visit https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/datadog to get started.

The Enterprise Data Catalog with Ole Olesen-Bagneux

We do it every day. We search on the internet for some information. Many ask, why is that easy? And yet doing the same thing at my company is hard sometimes, not even possible. And when you do get the data, it's unclear where it's from or the degree you can trust it or use it. In a highly regulated firm, there's even more pressure to select the best approved version of the information. Enter the data catalog. Enterprise Data Catalogs are essential for searching for data in an organization. Moreover, their creation, maintenance, and design tap into the most fundamental theories of the philosophy of language and the nature of creating knowledge. Today we are interviewing architect and author. Ole Olesen-Bagneux, who is finishing his first O'Reilly published book called Enterprise Data Catalogs. Today, he will explain what a data catalog is, the different ways computer scientists and information scientists think about searching for data versus searching in data, and how thinking about archiving data for a hundred years can help you create the best data catalog for your business today. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

Minimizing PII in Dev Environments with John Craft

Data anonymisation is an ever more important problem with many pitfalls, and the legal context requires more and more companies to find a solution to it. In this episode, we talk to John Craft from Privacy Dynamics, who offer data anonymisation as a service. Privacy Dynamics is powering a world where ethics, data insights and personalized technology can all co-exist to support business growth and customer privacy simultaneously. John talks about the different use-cases, technologies, requirements, and challenges he and his team faced throughout Privacy Dynamics' journey so far, and what might be to come. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

Financial Data Aggregation for SMB with Jason Dryhurst-Smith

Fintechs and traditional finance firms want to help their small business customers replace disorganized competing manual processes and multiple data sources with a single unified set of services and data. They could do that. They could more easily offer quicker decisions, better customer experience, and even get more first time customers founded in 2017. Codat wants to be that universal API that can connect financial firms to the platforms their small business customers use. Codat seeks to create a single flow and view for the bus. Small businesses, many accounting, banking, and commerce systems. That goal requires specialized approaches to authorization, data normalization, and availability. It also unlocks capabilities that small businesses can't usually access, like real time risk scoring and predictive analytics. Today we are interviewing Jason Dryhurst-Smith, head of engineering and employee one at Codat, he's an engineer who started in firmware and embedded systems. He has, uh, years of general development experiences, but now focuses primarily on platform engineering and building codat's full engineering team. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com AWS Insiders: Click on https://link.chtbl.com/awsinsiders?sid=podcast.cloudengineering to get in on the fun. Privacy Dynamics: Sign up for a free account today at https://privacydynamics.io/sedaily. Merge: check out Merge today at https://www.merge.dev/daily Redhat: check them out by clicking the link: https://link.chtbl.com/codecomments?sid=podcast.cloudengineering Nissan: Visit https://NissanUSA.com to learn more.

OpenSSL Vulnerability with Ilkka Turunen

OpenSSL is a free, open-source cryptographic library that provides secure communications over computer networks. It is widely used to implement the secure socket layer (SSL) and transport layer security (TLS) protocols, which are the basis for secure, encrypted connections on the internet. On Oct 25th, the OpenSSL project informed its users of a critical vulnerability that affects the 3.0 and later versions of the OpenSSL component. In this episode we sat down with Ilkka Turunen, Ilkka is Sonatype’s Field CTO, we discussed a wide range of topics including Shodan, SBOMs, Software Supply Chain and others. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Privacy Dynamics: Sign up for a free account today at https://privacydynamics.io/sedaily. AWS Insiders: Click on https://link.chtbl.com/awsinsiders?sid=podcast.cloudengineering to get in on the fun. Redhat: Check them out by clicking the link: https://link.chtbl.com/codecomments?sid=podcast.cloudengineering

Special Episode with George Hotz

Comma is a startup aimed at solving self-driving cars. A lot of the new cars in the market have built-in stock Advanced driver assistance systems. Comma takes this system to the next level with Openpilot. Openpilot is an open-source driver assistance system. Currently, with features like Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), Automated Lane Centering (ALC), Forward Collision Warning (FCW), and Lane Departure Warning (LDW), openpilot is one of the most state-of-the-art solutions in the self-driving space. The Comma Three device is designed to live in your car, and purpose built to run openpilot. In this episode we speak to George Hotz, President of Comma and now an intern at Twitter. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Flatiron School: Start today for free at https://flatironsdevelopment.com/products/fuse Redhat: check them out by clicking the link: https://link.chtbl.com/codecomments?sid=podcast.cloudengineering Merge: check out Merge today at https://www.merge.dev/daily AWS Insiders: Click on https://link.chtbl.com/awsinsiders?sid=podcast.cloudengineering to get in on the fun Wix: Head over to https://Wix.com/Partners and reimagine what your agency can accomplish.

Twisp: Reinventing Accounting Systems with Michael Parsons

Monolithic relational databases are the traditional foundation of financial core ledger systems. Nevertheless, the process of building and operating mission critical financial ledgers on these databases, and implementing homegrown accounting models, is a journey fraught with engineering challenges. Twisp has set out to rethink the underlying technology for financial ledger systems by combining the operational and scaling characteristics of a distributed database, the correctness guarantees offered by relational databases, with pre-built accounting primitives, while fully leveraging the modern cloud. Twisp systems are repeatable, autoscaling, fully managed, and a boon to developer productivity. In this episode, we speak to Michael Parsons, co-founder & CTO of Twisp. To learn more about Twisp and get access to a sandbox ledger, go to: www.twisp.com/

Modernizing the Monolith with Moti Rafalin and Amir Rapson

Java Applications became the go-to preference of most developers because of the write-once-run-anywhere advantage it gave over other languages. And it didn't take much time for Java to become the language for the enterprise. Consequently, most enterprises are still running legacy Java Monoliths on their infrastructure. Breaking up a monolith is not an easy process–nor is it something that every company should do just because they have a monolith. In some cases, a monolith is just fine. But sometimes, you do need to decompose a monolith as the complexity of the monolith grows and leads to longer release cycles or scalability issues. Breaking down into microservices is a natural way to shift legacy applications to the cloud. vFunction is an artificial intelligence platform that assesses, analyzes, helps you design microservices and then automatically creates those microservices for you. So it's an end-to-end platform from analysis to the actual creation of the code of those microservices with their respective APIs. While vFunction started with Java, they are expanding these capabilities to other platforms as well. Moti Rafalin who is the CEO of vFunction and Amir Rapson who is the CTO of vFunction join us today. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com AWS Insiders: Click on https://link.chtbl.com/awsinsiders?sid=podcast.cloudengineering to get in on the fun. Redhat: check them out by clicking the link: https://link.chtbl.com/codecomments?sid=podcast.cloudengineering Privacy Dynamics: Sign up for a free account today at https://privacydynamics.io/sedaily.

Cloud-native WebAssembly with Matt Butcher

When Web Assembly was created it was supposed to be a compile target, where you could compile your favorite programming language and then execute it inside of a web browser. This made it possible for developers to choose a programming language like C++ for compute intensive applications. Fermyon is taking Web Assembly to the cloud. With Fermyon Cloud deploying and managing cloud-native WebAssembly applications becomes a breeze. Matt Butcher is the CEO at Fermyon Technologies and he joins us today. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Privacy Dynamics: Sign up for a free account today at https://privacydynamics.io/sedaily. DataSet: Start today at https://www.dataset.com/sed/ Work OS: To learn more and get started, go to https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/workos

VMware Tanzu with Betty Junod

If you are a company with a large pool of physical servers, and compute resources sitting in the data center, and you want to use them efficiently, one way to do that would be to virtualize them. Then you can use those smaller virtual compute resources to run whatever workloads you need. VMware is a company that's known for virtualization. It's also the creator of Software Defined Data Center. In 2019, VMware acquired Heptio, this acquisition gave VMware the know-how to go full-scale on Kubernetes. Joe Beda and Craig McLuckie, one of the original creators of Kubernetes working at Heptio, also joined VMware as part of this acquisition. What followed this was VMware Tanzu, a division within VMware tasked to work on modern applications. VMware Tanzu is a modular, cloud-native application platform. It allows you to build, deliver, and operate cloud-native apps in a multi-cloud world, it also protects you from Vendor lock-in. Betty Junod is VP of Product Marketing at VMware and joins us today. Get 25% on all Linux Foundation Trainings and Certifications https://training.linuxfoundation.org/ use code "SDT2022NovThx" valid only till November Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Redhat: check them out by clicking the link: https://link.chtbl.com/codecomments?sid=podcast.cloudengineering Work OS: To learn more and get started, go to https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/workos Flatiron School: Start today for free at https://flatironsdevelopment.com/products/fuse

Secure Workflows on Sensitive Data with Amruta Moktali

With an increasing number of data breaches impacting customer trust, prioritizing data privacy and security is more important than ever. However, as you layer on security and privacy, the overall complexity of a system grows and the data gets harder to use. There’s a constant push and pull between securing and locking down the data but still being able to use it. Skyflow Data Privacy Vault isolates, secures, stores, and tightly controls access to manage and use sensitive data. With secure workflow support, developers are able to securely execute custom code, de-identity and transform data, and securely share data all within the secure compliant environment of the vault balancing data security and usability. Amruta Moktali, the Chief Product Officer of Skyflow, joins the show to discuss Skyflow’s Data Privacy Vault APIs, running secure workflows, and the engineering behind the technology. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Work OS: To learn more and get started, go to https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/workos DataSet: Start today at https://www.dataset.com/sed/ Wix: Head over to https://Wix.com/Partners and reimagine what your agency can accomplish. AWS Insiders: Click on https://link.chtbl.com/awsinsiders?sid=podcast.cloudengineering to get in on the fun AZUL:Say goodbye to latency lag: https://download Azul Platform Prime for free.

Collaborative Notebooks for DevOps and SRE with Micha Hernandez

The complexity of the software infrastructure has been increasing as companies have migrated towards kubernetes, containers, microservices and other distributed systems. However the tools around observability and monitoring have not seen much improvement. These tools are usually managed by teams distributed across different locations and time zones, which results in siloing of knowledge of your infrastructure across individuals. Reasoning about downtime involves bringing together all the pieces. While the teams can communicate through slack, screenshots and google docs, this has been still far from the kind of collaboration tools that other teams have enjoyed for example Figma is used by Design teams and Notion is used by product teams. Fiberplane is a collaborative notebook platform for DevOps and SRE. It puts a programmable SRE environment at the fingertips of engineers, redefining collaboration for infrastructure teams. Fiberplane offers collaborative investigation and documentation tools with real data, all hosted within a technical open-source notebook format. Micha Hernandez van Leuffen is the founder and CEO of Fiberplane and he joins us today. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Flatiron School: Start today for free at https://flatironsdevelopment.com/products/fuse Privacy Dynamics: Sign up for a free account today at https://privacydynamics.io/sedaily. DataSet: Start today at https://www.dataset.com/sed/ Apple Card: https://www.apple.com/apple-card/ Work OS: To learn more and get started, go to https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/workos

Accessing Data at Scale with Justin Borgman

The Presto/Trino project makes distributed querying easier across a variety of data sources. As the need for machine learning and other high volume data applications has increased, the need for support, tooling, and cloud infrastructure for Presto/Trino has increased with it. Starburst helps your teams run fast queries on any data source. With Starburst you get a single point of access to your data, no matter where it's stored and it supports high concurrency. Whether it's fast SQL queries on your data lake or faster queries across multiple datasets, Starburst helps your teams run analytics anywhere. Justin Borgman is the CEO of Starburst, and he joins us today. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com DataSet: Start today at https://www.dataset.com/sed/ Privacy Dynamics: Sign up for a free account today at https://privacydynamics.io/sedaily. AZUL:Say goodbye to latency lag: https://download Azul Platform Prime for free. Merge: check out Merge today at https://www.merge.dev/daily Flatiron School: Start today for free at https://flatironsdevelopment.com/products/fuse

Building on the Data Cloud with Torsten Grabs

Building and managing data-intensive applications has traditionally been costly and complex, and has placed an operational burden on developers to maintain as their organization scales. Todays’ developers, data scientists, and data engineers need a streamlined, single cloud data platform for building applications, pipelines, and machine learning models — without having to move or copy their data. Platforms like the Snowflake Data Cloud provides a unified tool for developers to easily build data applications with Python using Streamlit’s open source framework and Snowflake’s Native Application Framework, gain a streamlined architecture that natively supports users’ programming languages of choice including Java, Scala, SQL, and now Python with Snowpark, store and use transactional and analytical data together with Unistore, and more. Torsten Grabs is the Director of Product Management at Snowflake focused on Data Lake, Data Pipelines, and Data Science. He joins the show to dive into how Snowflake is disrupting application development, and how developers today can eliminate complexity with the Data Cloud. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Privacy Dynamics: Sign up for a free account today at https://privacydynamics.io/sedaily. Work OS: To learn more and get started, go to https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/workos NORD VPN: Grab your EXCLUSIVE NordVPN deal by going to https://nordvpn.com/sed . Merge: check out Merge today at https://www.merge.dev/daily Flatiron School: Start today for free at https://flatironsdevelopment.com/products/fuse

Cloud Asset Management with Serhat Can

Companies are rapidly moving to the cloud, and modern businesses are operating faster with a myriad of SaaS tools in their day-to-day operations. Provisioning resources has been easier than ever. WIth a few clicks you can spin up resources in any part of the world. While we all love the cloud because of the scalability it offers, assets can quickly pile up with every user, bucket, repository and resource. Keeping resources secure and compliant grows in complexity with every cloud service and SaaS application utilized. Resmo is a continuous cloud and SaaS asset visibility, security and compliance solution. DevOps, DevSecOps, and security teams can leverage Resmo to automatically audit resources, mitigate risks and answer security and compliance questions in minutes. Serhat Can is the co-founder at Resmo and he joins us today. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com AZUL:Say goodbye to latency lag: https://download Azul Platform Prime for free. Flatiron School: Start today for free at https://flatironsdevelopment.com/products/fuse Interval: Start building for free at https://Interval.com today University of Cincinnati: Go to https://Online.UC.edu to learn more about the MSIT program.