Techstrong Gang
The Techstrong Gang brings together a collection of IT industry editors, analysts and pundits to put major IT news and trends in perspective. Intended to help IT leaders make more informed strategic and tactical decisions, topics discussed typically span everything from the impact AI is having on society to the latest DevOps tools an IT team might employ to optimize workflows. Come watch core Techstrong Gang members Alan Shimel, Mitch Ashley, Mike Vizard, Sharon Florentine, Amanda Razani and Bonnie Schneider engage experts such as John Willis, Mark Hinkle, Tracy Ragan, Tracy Bannon and Bob Reselman to surface crucial insights into the issues changing the way we perceive the role of IT.
Episodes
Thursday Apr 11, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 4/11/24
Thursday Apr 11, 2024
Thursday Apr 11, 2024
On this episode of Techstrong Gang, Alan, Mitch and Bonnie Schneider are joined by Mark Hinkle. They discuss what havoc AI might create in the current election cycle. Then they ask: Are LLMs out of reach for most organizations? Are they too complicated? Too expensive? Lastly, the group announces they have renamed the Security Bloggers Network to the Security Creators Network. Techstrong gives the history and back story of the SBN and the Bloggers Meetup at RSA every year.References made in the Podcast:AI Havoc in elections:https://techstrong.ai/articles/welcome-to-the-generative-ai-election-era/LLMs: https://cloudnativenow.com/editorial-calendar/container-kubernetes-management/cast-ai-helps-cost-optimize-llms-running-on-kubernetes/ https://techstrong.ai/articles/google-touts-latest-ai-advances/Rebranding Security Bloggers Nework:https://securityboulevard.com/2024/04/techstrong-group-announces-rebranding-of-security-bloggers-network-to-security-creators-network/
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 4/09/24
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Alan, Mike, Mitch and guest Chris Blask dive into the DevSecOps implications of malicious code that was deliberately injected into open source xz software to create a backdoor before discussing the degree to which Microsoft has a unique set of cybersecurity issues in the wake of receiving a failing grade from the Federal government. Then the gang turns its attention to the role public-private partnerships should play in improving cybersecurity.
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 04/08/24
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Alan, Mike, Bonnie and guest John Willis dive into how much of a potential threat superhuman artificial intelligence (AI) actually represents before musing about the impact millions of drones delivering good might have on society. Finally, the gang turns its attention once again to climate change as it becomes easier to count carbon emissions as they occur.
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 4/04/24
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and guest, Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman, dive into the challenges Intel faces as a national treasure. Then the gang turns its attention to the impact artificial intelligence (AI) is having on climate change before trying to determine whether large language models (LLMs) have already become commodities.
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 4/02/24
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Alan, Mike, Amanda and guest Tracy Bannon dive into how much DevSecOps progressing is actually being made before debating the merits of GitOps as a separate distinct methodology. Finally, the impact artificial intelligence (AI) will have on application testing is expected to be profound but how long will it take for the quality of applications to improve is still anybody’s guess.
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 4/01/24
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and guest Mark Hinkle dive into the state of the artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem before discussing how real platform engineering as a formal best practice of managing DevOps has become. Finally, chief sustainability officers are starting to make their presence felt but the gang wants to know what these C-level executives are empowered to do.
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 3/28/24
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Mike, Mitch, Sharon and guest Tracy Ragan dive into the potential repercussions of the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) against Apple. In addition, the gang looks at the current state of programming, the latest iteration of Java and the apparent lack of visibility most IT teams have into their application environments.
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 3/26/24
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Mike, Mitch and Sharon dive into the impact artificial intelligence (AI) will have on software engineering and explore how to better understand what can be done to avoid the communication breakdowns that conspire to slow down the pace of application development. Finally, the Techstrong Gang dive into the impact edge computing is about to have on DevOps workflows.
Monday Mar 25, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 3/25/24
Monday Mar 25, 2024
Monday Mar 25, 2024
Alan, Mitch and special guest Savannah Peterson of Savvy Millennial wrap up KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 from Paris. The gang talks about the origins of OpenTofu and how it's revitalizing IaC, Spacelift's scalable infrastructure-as-code and policy, and how that fits into the DevOps workflow. Finally, the gang talks about OpenTelemetry as the locomotive pulling the train of operations within the cloud-native observability ecosystem.
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Techstrong Gang - KubeCon Special - 3/21/24
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Alan, Mike and Mitch are live at the Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference where the top issues of the day are the how platform engineering as a DevOps methodology drives cloud/native application developer experience, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on Kubernetes clusters and potential impact open datasets might have on how AI models are trained.