AI has eliminated the bottleneck of writing code—but introduced massive uncertainty in verifying it. This piece explores why deterministic guardrails, smarter linters, and eBPF-driven observability are becoming essential to code review and CI in the AI era.
5 Guaranteed Ways to Kill DevOps Developer Productivity
“A developer is an organism that turns coffee into code.” I still laugh when I see that quote as it reminds me of my hardcore developer days, when my cube always seemed to be directly next to the coffee machine and caffeine was management’s way of ensuring we had the energy to develop well into […]
Differentiating Between CI Pipelines and DevOps Assembly Lines
“What’s in a name?” wrote the greatest Bard who ever lived. All I can say is, he lived in simpler times, when DevOps and the confusing world of continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD), CI/CD, the other CD, application release automation (ARA), pipelines, assembly lines, etc., didn’t exist. The biggest challenge today is that vendors […]