Alan, Mike and special guests John Willis, Tracy Bannon and Tracy Ragan discuss the degree to which the open source software community has lost its innocence in an era when cybercriminals now routinely attack software supply chains. Then, the gang turns its attention to whether data science teams...

At the start of 2025, Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guest Tracy Ragan dive into why technology issues -- such as H1-B visa, relations with China, the impact artificial intelligence (AI) and electronic vehicles are having on the grid, and mergers involving Big Tech companies -- are all becoming po...

At KubeCon 2024, Alan Shimel and the Techstrong Gang discuss Kubernetes’ shift from a specialized, cloud-native tool to an essential platform for a wide range of applications, from data centers to edge computing. They highlight the industry’s efforts to make Kubernetes more accessible, as well as...

Alan, Mike, Jon and special guest Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, delve into the degree that small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) before diving into the state of Tesla prior to a forthcoming launch of a robotaxi service. T...

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 faili...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and Jon discuss how investments in artificial intelligence (AI) by football teams such as the Dallas Cowboys will drive the next era of online gambling.

Then, the gang turns its attention to the challenges DevOps teams are encountering as they embrace observability. Finally, th...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Anne Ahola Ward and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the trouble with software integration following some new research from The Futurum Group.

Then, the gang turns its attention to how data science and artificial intelligence (AI...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the implications of a digital labor workforce enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Then, they debate how popular NVIDIA's $249 developer kit for building AI applications might be thi...

Alan, Mike, Jon and special guests Anne Ahola Ward and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the role social media and marketing automation played in the presidential election.

Then, the gang turns its attention to demand for people that have artificial intelligence (AI) expe...

Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guest Steve Dickens, vice president and practice lead for The Futurum Group, discuss changes at the helm of Amazon Web Services (AWS) before diving into how the relationship between Elon Musk and Oracle is evolving.
Next, the Gang takes a hard look at what Google is...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guest Hope Lynch dive into a DevOps Next report from Techstrong Research, which finds growing interest in investing in tools and platforms to accelerate the pace of application development.

Then, the gang turns its attention to the concerns cybersecurity professiona...

In today's episode, the gang is in San Diego covering Qualys Security Conference. At QSC, Alan meets with Qualys to discuss the new TruRisk management ROC (Risk Operations Center). They also discuss the challenges of disaster recovery in the era of extreme climate change and the Nobel Prize commi...

Alan, Mike and special guests Hope Lynch and Chris Blask discuss the extent to which generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents are about to transform the way everyone works before diving into the paradox that cloud computing has become.

Then, the gang turns its attention to the outsized rol...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and Amanda see a need for more transparency into cloud computing costs before diving into how artificial intelligence (AI) tools might turn everyone into an application developer. Then the gang turns its attention to the $2.1 billion spinoff of the Software Integrity Group (SIG)...

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 ...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and gang members Anne Ahola Ward and Camberley Bates debate the degree to which technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) might be able to augment or even replace referees and umpires.

Then, the gang turns its attention to whether AI in its current form is too diff...

Today’s Techstrong Gang is a bit different -- it is an intimate lineup of just Alan Shimel and Jon Swartz in person from the Techstrong TV studio at AWS re:Invent. Jon and Alan discuss what AWS's end goal is and assumptions they are making that are driving many of the product and service announce...

In today’s Techstrong Gang, Alan, Bonnie Schneider and Stephen Foskett discuss the recent AppDev Tech Field Day, which took place at KubeCon. The gang also discusses a recent article on DevOps.com showing DevOps engineers are reaching management-level status faster than other IT workers. Finally,...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guest Tracy Ragan debate the degree to which artificial intelligence (AI) might one day improve application security. Then, they dive into what motivated NVIDIA to buy a company that makes it possible to use graphical processor units (GPUs) more efficiently. Addition...

In today's Techstrong Gang, Techstrong CEO Alan Shimel is joined by fellow gang members Mitch Ashley, Jon Swartz, Lisa Martin and Bonnie Schneider. The gang discusses the recent actions by the EU against Microsoft around bundling Teams as part of Office 365.

Next up, the gang looks at the recen...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Chris Blask and Tracy Ragan dive into a Techstrong Research report that suggests more DevSecOps progress is being made than is generally appreciated.

Then, the gang discusses the rate of DevOps progress being made in mainframe environments before deliberating...

In today's Earth Day-themed episode of the Techstrong Gang, Bonnie Schneider and Mike Vizard discuss the environmental challenges and sustainability initiatives. They kick off the conversation with a look at the history and global significance of Earth Day, focusing on this year's anti-plastic in...

Alan, Mike and Techstrong Gang members Tracy Ragan, Tracy Bannon, and Guy Currier, CTO of Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, debate the degree to which organizations should be using large language models (LLMs), such as DeepSeek, that were created in China, before discussing the impact ...

In this special episode of Techstrong Gang, recorded live at AI Field Day in San Jose, Jon is joined by co-host Stephen Foskett and special guests Gina Rosenthal of Digital Sunshine Solutions and John Willis. They start with a behind-the-scenes look at what Tech Field Day means to them and why it...