Techstrong Gang
Techstrong Gang is your go-to weekday show on Techstrong TV and your favorite podcast platform, bringing together a rotating lineup of top thought leaders and technologists to break down the biggest stories and trends shaping the tech world. Hosted by industry veterans Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Mitchell Ashley, Jon Swartz, Lisa Martin, Tracy Ragan, Sulagna Saha, Anne Ahola Ward, Bonnie Schneider, and more, the show dives deep into everything from DevOps and cybersecurity to AI and cloud innovation. Tune in Monday through Friday for insightful discussions, expert analysis, and lively debates on the issues that matter most to today’s tech professionals.
Techstrong Gang is your go-to weekday show on Techstrong TV and your favorite podcast platform, bringing together a rotating lineup of top thought leaders and technologists to break down the biggest stories and trends shaping the tech world. Hosted by industry veterans Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Mitchell Ashley, Jon Swartz, Lisa Martin, Tracy Ragan, Sulagna Saha, Anne Ahola Ward, Bonnie Schneider, and more, the show dives deep into everything from DevOps and cybersecurity to AI and cloud innovation. Tune in Monday through Friday for insightful discussions, expert analysis, and lively debates on the issues that matter most to today’s tech professionals.
Episodes

Apr 4, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 4/04/24
Apr 4, 2024
Apr 4, 2024
31 min
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.

Apr 2, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 4/02/24
Apr 2, 2024
Apr 2, 2024
42 min
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.

Apr 1, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 4/01/24
Apr 1, 2024
Apr 1, 2024
50 min
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.

Mar 28, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 3/28/24
Mar 28, 2024
Mar 28, 2024
40 min
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.

Mar 26, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 3/26/24
Mar 26, 2024
Mar 26, 2024
51 min
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.

Mar 25, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 3/25/24
Mar 25, 2024
Mar 25, 2024
28 min
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.

Mar 21, 2024
Techstrong Gang - KubeCon Special - 3/21/24
Mar 21, 2024
Mar 21, 2024
24 min
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.

Mar 19, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 3/19/24
Mar 19, 2024
Mar 19, 2024
42 min
Bonnie, Amanda and Sharon talk about the TikTok ban legislation and its likely outcome, the DOJ's move to hand down harsher sentences for crimes commited with AI, Techstrong Group's upcoming event, The Artificially Intelligent Enterprise with Mark Hinkle, and AI chatbots' liability in court. Then, the Gang discusses the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU event in Paris this week, as well as the upcoming Carbon Hack 24 conference from the Green Software Foundation and the push for green data centers and sustainability.

Mar 19, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 3/18/24
Mar 19, 2024
Mar 19, 2024
40 min
Alan, Mike, Sharon and guest Tracy Ragan discuss the merits of Elon Musk's lawsuit filed against OpenAI and Sam Altman before assessing the viability of the EU AI Act. In addition, the gang takes a look at the cost of generative AI and LLMs at a time when many of us are starting to show signs of AI addiction.

Mar 15, 2024
Techstrong Gang - 3/14/24
Mar 15, 2024
Mar 15, 2024
41 min
Alan, Mike, Amanda and guest Bob Reselman dive into why so many open source software vendors are changing their business models. In addition, the gang discusses why observability is so expensive and, finally, our take on what’s occurring at Broadcom in the wake of the acquisition of VMware.







