Kodsnack 445 - The momentum of developer love, with Guy Podjarny

This episode is sponsored by Snyk. Fredrik talks to Snyk founder and president Guy Podjarny about building security tools for developers, tools which you will actually use and enjoy.

Guy talks about how Snyk was built to bring developer focus into security, building with a great focus on the user instead of on the person paying the bills for tools or looking at the reports. The world may not stop revolving around developers - meaning we need to cover wider and wider areas of knowledge - but we need to accept the responsibility of this, and use good tools to enable us to build better things more easily and take on all that responsibility in a good way.

Guy describes Snyk’s suite of tools and how they are built to be maximally useful and convenient to developers. Security problems and their fixes can be as easy as fixing a spelling mistake if built right! Snyk’s tools can look at the whole application and understand the context. They can look at node_modules and filter out the problems which actually do not affect your app, and suggest appropriate fixes for the problems which do.

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Links

Snyk Guy Podjarny Akamai The secure developer • - Guy’s podcast

Opsec Devops Terraform Devsecops The problems with npm audit Snyk code Snyk monitor Snyk impact

Titles

• A developer security company

• The performance industry

• The giants at the time

• The tools better be amazing for my stack

• Security gravitates toward breadth

• Security has to go broad

• Naivité helped

• The momentum of developer love

• Run without any bottlenecks

• One helper

• Right-click and autocorrect

• How much you care, and how hard it is

• Opinionated integrations

• npm install snyk