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, Bonnie and special guest Mark Hinkle debate the real state of DevOps in the enterprise before diving into exactly how artificial intelligence (AI) is being applied to application development. Then the discussion turns to what parts of the machine learning operations (MLOps) workflow s...

Alan, Mike, Amanda and special guest John Willis dive into what’s real about bipartisan data privacy legislation that is being proposed in Washington. Then the gang moves onto whether organizations should be building their own large language models (LLMs) before discussing the impact artificial i...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guest Tracy Ragan dive into the impact AI assistants will have on our ability to automate increasingly complex tasks by, for example, eliminating the need for scripts; and then they dive into the legal battle between HashiCorp and an OpenTofu group that has created a...

On the Techstrong Gang, Alan, Mitch and Bonnie Schneider are joined by Mark Hinkle. We discuss what havoc AI might create in the current election cycle (https://techstrong.ai/articles/welcome-to-the-generative-ai-election-era/ ). Are LLMs out of the reach for most organizations? Are they too com...

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, 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...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and guest The 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 (L...

Alan, Mike, Amanda and guest Tracy Bannon dive into how much DevSecOps progress 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 lon...

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 ...

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 tea...

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. Fin...

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 ...

Live from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 in Paris, France - Day 1
Alan, Mike and Mitch are live at the Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 conference where the top issues of the day are how platform engineering as a DevOps methodology drives cloud/native application developer experience, t...

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 ...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and guest Chris Blask debate the role government should play in applying rules to artificial intelligence (AI), social media sites such as TikTok and climate change.
The challenge, as always, is finding a way to apply those rules in ways that won’t eventually run afoul o...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Sharon and guest John Willis dive into why Microsoft's and Google's generative AI platforms create disturbing images, which naturally leads to a conversation about the degree to which these platforms are -- or should be -- trusted. Meanwhile, the Toyota Research Institute is no...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Mark Hinkle dive into the impact artificial intelligence (AI), along with cloud-native and Bitcoin applications, are having on our climate. The challenge, of course, is finding the best way to advance innovation in a way that promotes sustainability.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and Chris Blask unravel into the cybersecurity challenges GitHub is encountering as malicious forks of codebases continue to proliferate across its open repository.

At the same, the gang dives into the challenges organizations are facing as they look to secure artificia...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and Bonnie join Tracy Bannon to dive into what's driving efforts to modernize DevOps workflows as continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms are revamped. At the same time, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is fostering a healthy debate over the degree t...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and Bob Reselman dive into what the ultimate goal of DevOps should be; why DevSecOps remains so challenging to implement; and whether forcing employees back into the office is good for society.

Alan, Mike, Mitch and Bonnie join John Willis to discuss the critical role vector database technologies are playing in making artificial intelligence (AI) more accessible, and the lessons learned from a recent TechStrong AI hackathon.