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In this episode we speak to Rand Hindi, CEO of Zama, an open source framework for securing AI applications in the cloud. We discuss the principles behind encryption, homomorphic encryption, and programmable bootstrapping, how these technologies can ensure user data privacy, what is changing that is making them more relevant to today, and how developers should be thinking about building on new protocols from HTTP to HTTPS to HTTPZ. 

About Rand Hindi

Dr Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and deeptech investor. He is the CEO at Zama, an open source homomorphic encryption company, and an investor in 30+ companies. Prior to Zama he created Snips, the first edge-based, private by design voice solution for OEMs, which was acquired by Sonos in 2019.

He has received the TR35 away from the MIT Technology Review, selected as a "30 under 30" by Forbes, is a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris and is an advisor to multiple companies. He was previously a member of the French Digital Council where he focused on AI and Privacy issues.

Things mentioned:

• Snips
• Zama
• Homomorphic encryption
• Programmable bootstrapping
• PyTorch
• TensorFlow
• WebAssembly
• Rust
• Confidential computing 
• Differential privacy 
• Solidity

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About Console

Console is the place developers go to find the best tools. Our weekly newsletter picks out the most interesting tools and new releases. We keep track of everything - dev tools, devops, cloud, and APIs - so you don’t have to. 

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Recorded: 2021-10-27.

In this episode we speak to Ed Sim, Founder and General Partner of Boldstart, a venture investor specializing in DevTools and software. Ed has invested in developer-focused companies like Snyk, Slim.ai, and Jit Security. We discuss what engineers should think about when working on side projects, when and if they should seek out investors, how to pick the good ones, whether raising money is even needed, and what the role of open source is.

About Ed Sim

Ed is the Founder of Boldstart Ventures, a day-one partner and true believer for developer first and SaaS founders. Boldstart is a lead investor and often partners with technical founders at company formation, helping accelerate their path to product market fit.

Ed is currently a board member/observer of Snyk, Kustomer, BigID, Blockdaemon, Env0, Dooly, and Cape Privacy. Other notable day-one investments include Superhuman, Security Scorecard, and Front. Ed previously co-founded Dawntreader Ventures where he led first round investments in LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN), GoToMeeting (acq. By Citrix), and Greenplum (acq. EMC/Pivotal). Ed has a BA in Economics from Harvard.

Things mentioned:

• Snyk
• Slim.ai
• CodeSee
• Atomic Jar 
• Testcontainers
• Akamai
• SourceClear
• Node
• RubyGems
• DigitalOcean
• Atlassian
• Twilio
• GitLab
• Bitbucket
• Greenplum
• Eucalyptus
• Cape Privacy 
• Gavin Uhma
• Dropout Labs
• TensorFlow encrypted
• MongoDB
• Elasticsearch
• Red Hat JBoss
• Boldstart.vc
• What’s Hot in Enterprise IT/VC

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About Console

Console is the place developers go to find the best tools. Our weekly newsletter picks out the most interesting tools and new releases. We keep track of everything - dev tools, devops, cloud, and APIs - so you don’t have to. 

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Recorded: 2021-10-15.

In this episode we speak to Charity Majors, CTO at Honeycomb, an observability tool for distributed systems. We discuss why observability is based around events and not metrics, how developers should think about achieving appropriately observable systems, why Honeycomb implemented their own distributed columnar data store, and how you can delete most of your alerts by implementing service level objectives.

About Charity Majors

Charity Majors is an ops engineer and accidental startup founder at honeycomb.io. Prior to this she worked at Parse, Facebook, and Linden Labs. She is the co-author of O'Reilly's Database Reliability Engineering.

Other things mentioned:

• MongoDB
• Postgres
• Scuba 
• High cardinality
• Druid
• Kafka
• AWS Lambda
• Zookeeper
• Appropriate observability
• Akita Software
• Sourcegraph
• Charity.wft
• Honeycomb blog

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About Console

Console is the place developers go to find the best tools. Our weekly newsletter picks out the most interesting tools and new releases. We keep track of everything - dev tools, devops, cloud, and APIs - so you don’t have to. 

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Recorded: 2021-11-03.

In this episode we speak to Thomas Ptacek, currently a software engineer at Fly.io and previously a co-founder at security firms Latacora and Matasano Security. We discuss the state of software security in sectors like energy and healthcare,  how software developers should think about supply chain risk, and what they should do about securing their dependencies. We also explore how security threats have changed over the years, and what developers working on open source should do to improve their own security.

About Thomas Ptacek

Thomas Ptacek is a leading security researcher. Best known as one of the co-founders of Matasano Security, which was prior to its acquisition by NCC Group one of the largest software security firms in the US. Working in software security since 1995, Thomas was a member of the industry’s first commercial vulnerability research lab - Secure Networks. Thomas is currently a software engineer at Fly.io

Other things mentioned:

• Django
• NodeJS
• React
• Deno
• Okta
• Google cloud authentication
• Tailscale
• WireGuard
• Server-side request forgery
• Burp Suite
• Black Hat
• Emacs Tramp Mode
• Magit

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About Console

Console is the place developers go to find the best tools. Our weekly newsletter picks out the most interesting tools and new releases. We keep track of everything - dev tools, devops, cloud, and APIs - so you don’t have to. 

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Recorded: 2021-10-19.

In this episode we speak with John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, a global web platform built for security and performance. We discuss the philosophy behind the idea that the network is a computer, why developers should be able to ignore the low level details of where their code runs, and the challenges of deploying data centers on Mars.

About John Graham-Cumming

John Graham-Cumming is the CTO of Cloudflare and is a computer programmer and author. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed for a doctorate in computer security. As a programmer, he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Lisbon, Germany, and France. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004.

He is the author of a travel book for scientists published in 2009 called The Geek Atlas and has written articles for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, New Scientist, and other publications.

Things mentioned:

• Apple silicon
• Arm
• IBM
• Intel
• Starlink
• Donald Knute
• Cloudflare Workers
• V8
• Go
• Rust
• WebAssembly (Wasm)
• COBOL
• Green Compute
• Cloudflare Wrangler
• J programming language
• Raspberry Pi
• Jgc.org

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About Console

Console is the place developers go to find the best tools. Our weekly newsletter picks out the most interesting tools and new releases. We keep track of everything - dev tools, devops, cloud, and APIs - so you don’t have to. 

Sign up for free at: https://console.dev.

We are always on the lookout for interesting tools to feature in the newsletter, so please say hello if you're working on something new or have recently used a tool you think we'd like.

We only include things that would be of interest to experienced developers and do not accept payment for product inclusion. Read our selection criteria.

Recorded: 2021-11-24

Starting with Cloudflare CTO, John Graham-Cumming on 6 Jan 2022, in season 2 of the Console DevTools Podcast we'll be speaking to 11 interesting people currently working in devtools about a specific technical topic. Upcoming guests:

• Dev infrastructure, with John Graham-Cumming (Cloudflare)
• Security, with Thomas Ptacek (Fly.io)
• Observability, with Charity Majors (Honeycomb)
• Decentralization, with Brooklyn Zelenka (Fission)
• Devtools investing, with Ed Sim (Boldstart)
• Homomorphic Encryption, with Rand Hindi (Zama)
• Dev communities, with Rosie Sherry (Orbit)
• Web standards & privacy, with Desigan (Dees) Chinniah (Tor / Ex-Mozilla)
• Designing dev products, with Ellen Chisa (Boldstart)
• Terminal tools, with Michelle Lim & Zach Lloyd (Warp)
• Developer experience, with Jean Yang (Akita)

Join David for our first episode, on 6th January 2022. In the meantime, subscribe to the Console newsletter for weekly reviews of the best 2-3 devtools.

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Episode 10 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software).

Tools discussed:

1. Cue - 0pen source data validation language)
2. Leapp (manage cloud access credentials)

Find more interesting tools and beta releases for developers at https://console.dev

Other things mentioned:

• JSON
• Go
• Protocol buffers
• Typescript
• F# Projects
• Julia Programming Language
• Akita Software
• AWS Identity and Access Management 
• Apache Subversion

Let us know what you think on Twitter:

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We are always on the lookout for interesting tools to feature in the newsletter, so please say hello if you're working on something new or have recently used a tool you think we'd like.

We only include things that would be of interest to experienced developers and do not accept payment for product inclusion. Read our selection criteria.

Recorded: 2021-08-19.

Episode 7 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software).

Tools discussed:

1. Sourcegraph - code search engine.
2. Hoppscotch - test UI for API requests.

Find more interesting tools and beta releases for developers at https://console.dev

Other things mentioned:

• Github.
• Dropbox.
• Monorepo.
• PageRank.
• Github Copilot.
• Postman.
• Console EP2 - GitHub Copilot
• Console EP6 - Philosophy of open source

Let us know what you think on Twitter:

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We are always on the lookout for interesting tools to feature in the newsletter, so please say hello if you're working on something new or have recently used a tool you think we'd like.

We only include things that would be of interest to experienced developers and do not accept payment for product inclusion. Read our selection criteria.

Recorded: 2021-08-10.

Episode 6 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software).

Tools discussed:

1. Appsmith - Open source internal tool UI builder
2. Retool - Internal tool UI builder

Find more interesting tools and beta releases for developers at https://console.dev

Other things mentioned:

• MongoDB
• Amazon S3
• GraphQL
• Stripe
• React
• Why Aren't There More Programming Languages Startups?

Let us know what you think on Twitter:

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We are always on the lookout for interesting tools to feature in the newsletter, so please say hello if you're working on something new or have recently used a tool you think we'd like.

We only include things that would be of interest to experienced developers and do not accept payment for product inclusion. Read our selection criteria.

Recorded: 2021-08-03.

Episode 5 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software).

Tools discussed:

1. Snyk Open Source - Dependency security monitoring.
2. Security Scorecard - Security health metrics.

Find more interesting tools and beta releases for developers at https://console.dev

Other things mentioned:

• GNU C Library (glibc)
• Dependabot
• Ngnix
• Linux Foundation

Let us know what you think on Twitter:

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We are always on the lookout for interesting tools to feature in the newsletter, so please say hello if you're working on something new or have recently used a tool you think we'd like.

We only include things that would be of interest to experienced developers and do not accept payment for product inclusion. Read our selection criteria.

Recorded: 2021-07-27.

Episode 4 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software).

Tools discussed:

1. Liveblocks - real-time collaboration API.
2. Livekit - Open source live video and audio API.

Find more interesting tools and beta releases for developers at https://console.dev

Other things mentioned:

• Figma.
• Mux.
• Next.js.
• NuxtJS.
• WebRTC.
• Redis.
• ohyay.
• Zoom Bachelor.
• Open Broadcaster Software.
• Agora.
• Twillio.
• Tuple.
• Splunk.
• Notion.
• Clubhouse.
• Discord.
• A16Z - The Cost of Cloud.

Let us know what you think on Twitter:

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We are always on the lookout for interesting tools to feature in the newsletter, so please say hello if you're working on something new or have recently used a tool you think we'd like.

We only include things that would be of interest to experienced developers and do not accept payment for product inclusion. Read our selection criteria.

Recorded: 2021-07-20.

Episode 2 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software).

Tools discussed:

1. GitHub Copilot - AI pair programming for VS Code.
2. Tuple - Screen sharing optimized for developers.

Find more interesting tools and beta releases for developers at https://console.dev

Other things mentioned:

• Computer Aided Programming Group at MIT.
• Jean’s programming language research.
• GNU General Public License (GPL).
• Django.
• Ruby on Rails.
• Bootstrap.
• David’s sustainable computing research.
• Jean’s Twitch channel.

Let us know what you think on Twitter:

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We are always on the lookout for interesting tools to feature in the newsletter, so please say hello if you're working on something new or have recently used a tool you think we'd like.

We only include things that would be of interest to experienced developers and do not accept payment for product inclusion. Read our selection criteria.

Recorded: 2021-07-06.

As software has become more important, so the demand for developers has increased. Whether you call yourself an engineer, a programmer, developer, hacker or coder, more and more organizations are building skilled technology teams to change how they achieve their mission.

Developers make big decisions, yet they face an onslaught of sales and marketing combined with an unrelenting velocity of releases to keep up with.

From open source, cloud, large public company or small startup, there has never been more choice for developers.

That's why we started Console, a free weekly email digest of the best tools and beta releases for developers. Every Thursday we highlight two interesting developer tools, saying what we like and what we don’t like.

And now we’re launching a podcast.

We'll be kicking off with our first few episodes, each no more than 15 minutes, discussing the tools featured in the Console newsletter with David Mytton (Co-founder of Console) and Jean Yang, CEO of Akita Software. Jean earned her PhD in software correctness and programming language design from MIT and then became a professor in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University before she started Akita to build the future of API observability.

So join Jean and David for our first episode, on 8th July 2021. And in the meantime, subscribe to the Console newsletter.

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Diana Pfeil is a startup CTO with 15+ years of experience with machine learning and optimization, including a PhD from MIT.

She's seen machine learning developer tools grow from non-existent to a complete Python ecosystem, pre-trained networks, and numerous out-of-the-box paid solutions. That said, her position is to stick with open-source cloud provide tools– hear why!

Diana and I also discuss equality and fairness in machine learning, and how it can be used for good vs. evil in society. We can use machine learning eliminate bias in society, but we have to be intentional. She's a fan of the tool Shap to check your outcomes. 

We close out with discussing the future of DevTools for machine learning and whether or not I should be scared of Skynet running the world. 

Jim Mullady is a Sales Engineer at Coralogix, where they build machine-learning-powered logging integrated with your CI/CD pipelines.

He's seen logging and monitoring evolve throughout his career. Jim says as an industry, we're moving from looking at logging only after an incident to looking at logs and squashing bugs ahead of the incident. 

Machine learning is a major part of this shift in both detecting an upcoming issue from anomalies and detecting what's a real issue vs. noise. 

Shawn Harris, Software Engineer at Google, joins Kate for the second episode! We discuss how process is the ultimate DevTool because the hard part of software development is not the coding, it's working together.

Agile Scrum and Jira are Shawn's personal favorites, but we also talk about how to tweak processes depending on the team you're on and even define a step-by-step plan to help you get new processes rolling on your team. 

We close out the episode with talking about how software development processes will change in the future, including Shawn's hypothesis that it will incorporate psychology to accommodate for modern pressures like pager duty and CI/CD.