Devops Chat

Gil Sever and Applitools are pioneering a new segment in the AI market, Visual AI. Originally used as part of their testing and monitoring solution, Applitools believes that visual AI will become an entire segment with the AI space. When it does, Applitools will be the leader in it. Great vision from the CEO. Right now Applitools is doing a great job with visual testing and monitoring. We check in with Gil and get the latest.

In this DevOps Chat we sit down with Rani Osnat and Andy Feit of Aqua Security to discuss what is happening in the container security market. The entire container space is of course exploding with this year's North American KubeCon in Seattle shaping up to be a blockbuster event (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2018/) Aqua along with AWS and Red Hat are putting on the KubeSec Enterprise Summit on the Monday of KubeCon and if container security is on your radar (and if its not, why not?) don't miss this one.

October 17, 2018 starting at 3am New York time, AllDayDevOps is back. With over 124 speakers/sessions, there is virtually (no pun intended) something for everyone. We caught up with Derek Weeks and Mark Miller, the founders of AllDayDevOps to see what's new and what has them excited. Great stuff going on here and you can be part of it by registering now http://alldaydevops.com

Mark Curphey has been a leader in the security space for many years. He recently joined Veracode and is helping to shape the strategy there. He has some great thoughts on the future of DevSecOps and AppSec. In this interview we speak with Mark about his vision and thoughts on the future of DevSecOps

It was announced yesterday (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/clearlake-capital-backed-perforce-software-to-acquire-perfecto-mobile-300726603.html) that Perforce has acquired Perfecto Mobile. Perfecto is one of the leading players in the mobile app testing space. Perforce originally was a version control solution, but with 5 acquisitions recently is branching out into a broader DevOps solution company. I sat down with the CEOs of Perfecto and Perforce to discuss the reasoning behind the merger, as well as the broader DevOps market trends that are at play here. Great conversation, have a listen!

Zohar Alon is a pioneer in cloud security having started Dome9 after leaving a distinguished stint at Checkpoint. Dome9 has seen the advent of DevSecOps influence the Cloud Security space (or maybe it is the other way around). I have known Zohar for years and he is always an interesting interview. This podcast is no exception. Good stuff from the Zohar!

Listeners to DevOps Chat are not strangers to JFrog. We recently spoke with CEO, co-founder, Shlomi Ben Haim about their acquisition of Trainologic. But today we are happy to announce that Shlomi and team have announced a series D round of capital total a whopping $165m dollars! This may be the biggest raise in the DevOps market to date. We speak with Shlomi about how this came about and what are JFrog's plans now that it is fully funded. Also what does this mean for the industry in light of other recent news around capital raises. Congrats to Shlomi and the entire JFrog team.

Pete Cheslock has appeared on DevOps Chat as his career has spanned several leading DevOps enabled companies. It seems that where there is DevOps, there is Pete Cheslock. Pete has joined Chaos Search as VP of product. Pete tells us why he joined and what excites him about Chaos Search and DevOps.

The Accelerate State of DevOps Report(https://cloudplatformonline.com/2018-state-of-devops.html) has become the go to source for the definitive word on DevOps adoption and metrics. Building on 6 years of research with sound academic process, the State of DevOps reports are peer review class research into the state of DevOps. We sit down with DORA co-founder and well known DevOps author and practitioner, Jez Humble to discuss this years report and its key findings.

A few months back Tricentis merged with QASymphony to create a large player in the continuous testing space. This interview with Tricentis CEO Sandeep Johri originally ran(https://devops.com/tricentis-acquires-qasymphony-the-age-of-continuous-testing-is-upon-us/) on DevOps.com. You can hear it now on Soundcloud and elsewhere as just a podcast.

Yesterday JFrog announced it had acquired Trainologic. I sat down with Trainologic CEO Gal Marder, who is now Jfrog's VP of DevOps Services and Jfrog's CEO and co-founder, Shlomi Ben Haim. Shlomi and Gla give us the reasons behind the acquisition and what the plan is for rolling DevOps professional services as part of the Jfrog bundle of offerings. With so many companies adopting DevOps, the need for pro services to help them is a big need. Jfrog hopes to capitalize on this by creating pro serve commando units. You can find out more here: https://jfrog.com/about/jfrog-acquires-trainologic-to-fortify-platform-expansion-with-enterprise-devops-services/

Container adoption has gone mainstream. It seems everyone is moving to a Kubernetes/Docker model. Part and parcel with that is the challenge of how do we secure these environments. There are many companies that claim to offer container security solutions, but many of them have "container washed" their existing solutions. There are few "container native" security companies. StackRox is one of these companies. In this chat we speak with Ali Golsha, CEO of StackRox.

The security of open source components have been in the spotlight especially since the Equifax breach last year. In this DevOps Chat we speak with WhiteSource Software co-founder Azi Cohen about the challenges that DevOps and DevSecOps teams are facing in trying to keep their applications secure. A big part of this is making sure your open source components are up to date and secure. This is where WhiteSource Software plays. Azi had some great insights on this subject

Eric Minick, CD and Continuous Testing Program Director at IBM talks to us about Day 2 of DevOps and beyond. Eric is always a great guest on DevOps Chat and this episode is no exception. Lots of really good information here.

In this chat we sat down with Ben Bernstein, CEO of Twistlock. Twistlock just announced another round of venture capital funding, as well as continued progress in customer adoption and new features. Bernstein also shared with us his views on container security and what the market is looking for.

Shift Left. You have heard the term but what does it mean? In this chat we sit down with Chetan Conikee, founder & CTO of ShiftLeft to discuss what we mean by ShiftLeft. Also about how we can take lessons learned in DevOps to make AppSec and security better. Great conversation with someone who understands the issue.

There were several incident management vendors who were "DevOps native" in the market. But with the maturity of the DevOps movement and the adoption of DevOps by organizations large and small, larger more established incident management firms have taken their own lessons in adopting DevOps to tailor their solutions for DevOps. Everbridge is one of those companies. A public company, Everbridge is bringing their best in class solution to the DevOps market. I spoke with Prashant Darisi, VP of Products there about this and more. Have a listen.

CircleCI was born as a cloud native SaaS based CI solution. Since then they have also released an "on prem" solution and today offers a full CI/CD solution. We chat with Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI and veteran of the tech space with four startups under his belt. Rob gave us some great insight into the market, I am sure you will find interesting.

SignalFX is a company hitting its stride by providing a quality solution to large enterprises. The company recently announced a new round of capital with a $45m raise. We chat with CEO Karthik Rau about what this means for the future of the company and what it means for the modern applications that we are seeing deployed today.

RoelBob creator and futurist Bob Reselman talks about what the future may hold for you and your career in light of automation. In the bigger picture what does this really mean for you, your children and society in general? Bob gives us his thoughts in this chat