Alan Shimel is founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, a Futurum company, and a member of Futurum's executive leadership team. A technology entrepreneur, media executive and industry commentator, Shimel has spent more than three decades building businesses, communities and media platforms serving enterprise technology professionals, including co-founding StillSecure, a network security company, and the DevOps Institute, a DevOps certification and training body. At Techstrong, he leads a portfolio of media brands including DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Techstrong AI, Techstrong IT, Digital CxO, Platform Engineering, Techstrong Semi and Techstrong TV, along with a growing portfolio of events, educational programs and digital communities. With more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Shimel is a familiar voice in the space and was an early advocate of the DevOps movement, helping bring DevOps practices into mainstream enterprise technology. His work today spans cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud-native technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and digital transformation, and he hosts popular programs including Techstrong Gang, Shimmy Says and Still Cyber, After All These Years. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics from St. John's University and a Juris Doctor from New York Law School.
Agentic AI is rapidly entering DevOps pipelines, platform engineering platforms and cloud-native infrastructure. DevOps Experience 2026 brings the community together to decide which tools matter, how they should be governed and what ...
As enterprises worldwide rethink control of the stack in the age of AI, SUSECON lands at the intersection of sovereignty, open infrastructure and the next generation of enterprise platforms ...
Shared staging environments were never designed for a world where dozens of changes land in a codebase every hour. Yet most engineering teams still depend on them as the primary checkpoint before ...
AI coding assistants can generate pull requests faster than most teams can review them, and that mismatch is creating a new kind of bottleneck across engineering organizations. The volume of AI-generated code ...
AI agents can now generate in minutes what once took teams weeks, but the real shift is not faster coding. It is the collapse of code scarcity. As software production becomes industrialized, ...
As AI coding tools accelerate software delivery, they are also intensifying a problem DevOps and SRE teams have been dealing with for years: the unchecked growth of observability data. In this conversation, ...
A surprising AI experiment showed that feeding a model sloppy code didn’t just produce bad programming, it produced bad behavior. The result points to something philosophers and DevOps engineers have long understood: ...
Observability has always had a data quality problem. AI coding agents just made it catastrophically worse. Shimmy sits down with the co-founders of Sawmills to dig into why unmanaged telemetry is the ...
As AI-driven development accelerates, open source software faces an uncomfortable paradox: Usage is rising while engagement, sustainability and community economics quietly erode. AI isn’t eliminating OSS, but it is reshaping how code ...
Charity Majors delivers a wake-up jab to DevOps, sparking debate on its evolution and success. Is it a failure or just getting interesting? Alan dives into the discussion ...
