Will empathy help make our software development teams better? In this week’s episode of the Upstream podcast, Luis Villa sits with Kellan Elliot-McCrea of Adobe and Adam Jacon, CEO of System Initiative. Should software development teams be a team sport or an orchestra rather than a factory? How should we handle generational changes within software development teams?. Why do large software companies give their employees free breakfast? Get answers to these questions and enjoy some fun anecdotes about mastering craps when stuck in Las Vegas. Links:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel)https://laughingmeme.org/2023/01/16/software-and-its-discontents-part-1.htmlhttps://laughingmeme.org/2023/01/23/software-and-its-discontents-part-2-complexity.htmlhttps://laughingmeme.org/2023/01/29/software-and-its-discontents-part-3-the-magic.htmlFor more stories about open source, subscribe to the Upstream podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, Google Podcasts, YouTube, RSS, or follow along on our website, www.tidelift.com.

Predrag talks about being a maintainer and why he volunteers, emphasizing the community impact and the significance of mentorship; Kingsley shares his experience as a Nigerian UX designer in open-source projects, highlighting the challenges of onboarding designers and his inclusive approach to creating opportunities for them.

Now that you’ve aced that CFP, the gang is back to share our best tips & tricks to help you give your best conference talk ever.

A big thanks to this episode's sponsor, Koyeb!Proposal, accepted and merged: slices: add ReverseCorrection: GOEXPERIMENT=gocacheprog feature won't introduce new cache invalidation bugsNew proposal: strings.First functionBlog post: Some notes on the cost of Go finalizers (in Go 1.20) by Chris...

Originally published on August 23, 2021. Application security is usually done with a set of tools and services known as SIEM – Security Information and Event Management. SIEM tools usually try to provide visibility into an organization’s security systems, as well as event log management and security event notifications.  The company Panther takes traditional SIEM

Ian Coldwater is a DevSecOps engineer turned red teamer who specializes in breaking and hardening Kubernetes, containers, and cloud native infrastructure. In their spare time, they like to go on cross-country road trips, capture flags, and eat a lot of pie. Ian lives in Minneapolis and tweets as @IanColdwater. This Interview was recorded at KubeCon Europe and

The software supply chain refers to the process of creating and distributing software products. This includes all of the steps involved in creating, testing, packaging, and delivering software to end-users or customers. Socket is a new security company that can protect your most critical apps from supply chain attacks. They are taking an entirely new

Webhooks are used in connecting two different online applications. Webhooks allow one program to send data to another as soon as a certain event takes place.And because they are event-driven, webhooks are ideal for things like real-time notifications and data updates. The company Hookdeck helps build webhook integrations at scale. In this episode, we talk

Simon Bennetts, founder and project lead of OWASP ZAP, joins the home team to talk about how he came to create the world’s most-used web app scanner, why open-source projects need long-term contributors, and how recent AI advancements could introduce new security vulnerabilities.

Lisa talks about the telco industry’s shift towards open source code, the importance of community health, and strategic alignment with Red Hat’s objectives in deciding whether to continue investing in a particular community.

It’s our 4th annual New Year’s party! Jerod & the gang review our (failed) resolutions from last year, discuss what’s trending in the web world, make a few predictions of our own & even set some new (probably failed) resolutions for this year.

Russell talks about starting a code project and transitioning from an author to a maintainer; Uriel showcases Ma’akaf, an open source beginner community in Israel, and the importance of being serious, while also having an open-source party.

Ali shares why he started thanks.dev, the people that inspired him through his journey, and his mission for OSS developers.

Mat and the gang ring in the new year by gathering around a make believe fireplace and discussing what they’re excited about in 2023, their new years resolutions & a little bit of Go talk, too. But only a little.

Mike talks with Drew White from Stashpad about personal notetaking apps for developers, and the potential of future API hooks for Stashpad.

Phil and Mike sit down for a chat with Steve MacDougall, who has just recently started working in Developer Relations at Treblle, a past sponsor of APIs You Won't Hate.

Thunderbird is thriving on small donations, Syncthing is a super-cool continuous file sync program, LLMs are so hot right now and they’re making vectors hot by proxy & MDN defines a Baseline for stable web features.

This week Sarah Drasner joins us to talk about her book Engineering Management for the Rest of Us and her experience leading engineering at Zillow, Microsoft, Netlify, and now Google.

Conferences: GopherCon Europe, Berlin, June 26-29Gopher China, June 9-11Go Dev Survey 2023Q1 results StackOverflow Dev Survey 2023ProposalsA formal proposal to change loop variable semantics Limit cap of Buffer.Bytes() resultNew Proposal: Optional improved cachingCommunitySemanticDiff supports...

Serverless received significant attention when it first emerged in the middle of the 2010s. And although it has now entered the mainstream and is today used in a diverse range of scenarios and architectures, it nevertheless remains a topic that causes considerable confusion and debate: where should we use it? How should we use it? Sometimes, what even is it, exactly? In this episode of the Technology Podcast, Mike Mason and Prem Chandrasekaran are joined by former Thoughtworker Mike Roberts — author of "the canonical book on serverless,"  — to discuss the current state of serverless. They examine the ways that serverless is understood today and explore the impacts and challenges it has for both businesses and software developers. Read Mike Roberts' book Programming AWS Lambda:  Read Mike's long-read on serverless on martinfowler.com: https://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html

Conferences are an integral part of the Go community, but the experience of conferences has remained the same even as the value propositions change. In this episode we discuss what conferences generally provide, how value propositions have changed, and what changes conference organizers could make to realign their conf...