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SE Radio 572: Greg Kapfhammer on Flaky Tests
Gregory Kapfhammer, associate professor at Allegheny College, discusses the common problem of ‘flaky tests’ with SE Radio’s Nikhil Krishna. Flaky tests are test cases that unreliably pass or fail even when no changes are made to the source code under test or to the test suite itself, which means that developers can’t tell whether the […]
SE Radio 571: Jeroen Mulder on Multi-Cloud Governance
Jeroen Mulder, author of Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects, joins host Robert Blumen for a discussion of public cloud, private cloud, and multi-cloud computing architectures and trends. They start by considering what defines cloud computing and what differentiates the major cloud providers, including whether they are more alike or different in the services they offer. […]
SE Radio 570: Stanisław Barzowski on the jsonnet Language
Stanisław Barzowski of XTX Markets and a committer on the jsonnet project joins SE Radio’s Robert Blumen for a conversation about the jsonnet programming language. A superset of JSON, jsonnet adds programming language capabilities, particularly to address the need to handle large but mostly repetitive JSON configurations. They discuss the project’s history, use cases for […]
SE Radio 569: Vladyslav Ukis on Rolling out SRE in an Enterprise
Vladyslav Ukis, author of the book Establishing SRE Foundations: A Step-by-Step Guide to Introducing Site Reliability Engineering in Software Delivery Organizations, discusses how to roll out SRE in an enterprise. SE Radio host Brijesh Ammanath speaks with Vlad about the origins of SRE and how it complements ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library). They examine how […]
SE Radio 568: Simon Bennetts on OWASP Dynamic Application Security Testing Tool ZAP
Simon Bennetts, a distinguished engineer at Jit, discusses one of the flagship projects of OWASP: the Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) open source security testing tool. As ZAP’s primary maintainer, Simon traces the tool’s origins and shares some anecdotes with SE Radio host Priyanka Raghavan on why there was a need for it. They take a […]
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