This week, I took a deep dive into DevOps — a fast-growing software category that's about giving tools to developers that improve the way a company functions. We had big earnings and a big IPO in the category: Read on.

Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI and Cloud for Markets: CNBC Working Lunch

CEO Adena Friedman is leading Nasdaq further into data, AI and cloud — a space she’s familiar with, since she’s actually flown planes. This week, get to know her in Working Lunch, on CNBC’s Power Lunch:

Hashicorp Goes Public: A Big Moment for DevOps

HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet joined me on TechCheck on the day of the company's IPO, and talked about the multicloud trend driving demand and the DevOps companies changing the game:

Here's our Fortt Knox 1:1 conversation from September 2020:

PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada on Earnings, AWS Outage

After another DevOps company, PagerDuty, reported earnings last week, CEO Jennifer Tejada joined me on TechCheck to talk about the better-than-expected results, and the impact of an AWS outage:

Here's my Fortt Knox 1:1 with Tejada, also from September 2020. (What a coincidence!)

Arctic Wolf CEO Nick Schneider on Security in the Platform Era

In a Fortt Knox 1:1, I spoke with Arctic Wolf CEO Nick Schneider about his company's attempt to simplify security at a time when threats keep multiplying, and why he believes his company's unique use of experts can win:

A Fun Look At the Past Year of Fortt Knox

For my birthday, my very cool coworkers put together a fun reel of some of the work we've done together on Fortt Knox, TechCheck and Working Lunch over the past year. Thanks, Fahiemah Al-Ali and Allison Councill:

Apple's China Deals: Problematic or Prescient? On the Other Hand

Apple promised China's government it would make economic investments worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Was that wise, or worrisome? I argued both sides in the latest edition of On the Other Hand, on CNBC's Squawk Box:

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