Mike Vizard talks with Chris Aniszczyk of the CNCF about OpenTelemetry’s graduation and the project’s evolution from OpenTracing and OpenCensus into a widely adopted observability standard. Aniszczyk explains why OTel is becoming foundational for tracing applications, modernizing legacy monitoring environments and helping teams manage the growing volume of telemetry data. The conversation also explores why AI agents, token usage and emerging agentic workloads will require stronger instrumentation, traceability and open standards.
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AI Vulnerability Surge Tests Software...
Mike Vizard talks with Brian Fox of Sonatype about why AI-assisted vulnerability discovery could create a rapid surge of software supply chain risk. Fox explains that attackers and defenders can now use advanced models to find flaws faster, which could lead to exploit timelines that outpace tradi...
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CDEvents Simplifies AI-Ready Develope...
Mike Vizard talks with Dadisi Sanyika of the Continuous Delivery Foundation about Conduit and the effort to reduce integration complexity for internal developer platforms. Sanyika explains how CDEvents can provide consistent software delivery receipts across tools such as Jenkins and Tekton, maki...
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Decentralized Identity Secures AI Age...
Mike Vizard talks with Alexander Shcherbakov of DSR Corporation about why AI agents need stronger identity, trust and credentialing models as agent-to-agent communication becomes more common. Shcherbakov explains how decentralized identity, verifiable credentials, OpenID Connect and selective dis...
