In today’s episode, Jason and Patrick dive deeply with JFrog’s Senior Solutions Engineer, Bill Manning. With the conversation tackling the depth and complexity of software supply chains, vulnerabilities and more, Bill deftly offers grounded advice to listeners old and new. 00:00:26 Introductions00:00:40 Bill’s plethora of job titles00:09:33 The excitement of learning a language00:15:08 Mechanical keyboards00:21:17 Bill’s advice on adapting00:27:55 What a supply chain is00:34:28 Castle analogies00:40:55 Unpacking legalities00:52:11 Log4J00:54:41 What JFrog does01:01:16 What can go wrong01:08:08 Getting started in this space01:14:15 Careers in JFrog01:20:23 FarewellsResources mentioned in this episode:Join the Programming Throwdown Patreon community today: https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Subscribe to the podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@programmingthrowdown4793Links:
Bill Manning:
Website: https://about.me/billmanning
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williammanning/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/williammanning


JFrog:
Website: https://jfrog.com/

Careers: https://join.jfrog.com/

Artifactory: https://jfrog.com/artifactory/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jfrog-ltd/


Others:
Liquid Software: https://liquidsoftware.com/
SolarWinds hack incident: https://www.wired.com/story/the-untold-story-of-solarwinds-the-boldest-supply-chain-hack-ever/
Transitive dependencies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitive_dependency



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