Empowering Secure, Agentic Software Delivery
At swampUP 2025 in Napa Valley, JFrog co-founder and CTO Yoav Landman joined Alan to reflect on the company’s latest announcements and the broader direction of software delivery in the AI era. Landman noted that this year’s event may have been JFrog’s most ambitious yet, with a wave of product releases designed to tie together […]
Building End-to-End Trust in the Software Supply Chain
At swampUP 2025, JFrog’s Guy Levi, head of the architects team, highlights some of the technologies shaping the company’s next chapter. Levi’s role centers on exploring advanced technologies “beyond the horizon,” but he emphasized that swampUP isn’t about future promises — it’s about showing what’s available today. One of the highlights Levi pointed to was […]
Sketch Coding and the Rise of MCP in DevOps
At swampUP 2025, JFrog’s Yonatan Arbel reflects on his journey inside the company and how developer DNA continues to shape JFrog’s culture. Arbel, who has spent nearly a decade with JFrog, began as a software engineer before moving into leadership and eventually into a developer relations role. But as he emphasized, “once a developer, always […]
Bringing Trust and Governance to AI-Driven DevOps
At swampUP 2025 in Napa Valley, Alan Shimel sat down with three industry leaders whose companies sit at the heart of today’s AI-driven DevOps transformation: Rahul Tripathi, general vice president and GM of ITSM at ServiceNow; Justin Boitano, vice president of enterprise AI at NVIDIA; and Shlomi Ben Haim, co-founder and CEO of JFrog. Tripathi, […]
Bringing Order to Chaotic Software Engineering Workflows
Software development has never been tidy, but the current landscape feels more chaotic than ever. Shannon Mason, chief strategy officer for Tempo, dives into why software engineering workflows remain chaotic and what teams should be doing to try and restore application development order. Developers today face a relentless push to innovate while keeping complex codebases […]
Why APIs Alone Won’t Cut It in the AI Era
Kumar Chivukula, co-founder and CEO of Codeglide.ai (a subsidiary of Upsera), explains why the rise of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is reshaping how enterprises connect APIs to large language models. For years, APIs have served as the backbone of data access, but they were never designed with AI in mind. They lack memory, context, […]
MCP Emerges as a Catalyst for Modern DevOps Processes
Loreli Cadapan, VP of product at CloudBees, discusses how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) developed by Anthropic will provide the foundation for reinventing DevOps workflows. Cadapan explains that MCP acts as a bridge between large language models and enterprise DevOps environments, functioning as a kind of control plane. It can connect with different CI/CD tools […]
How AI-Created Code Will Strain DevOps Workflows
Nick Durkin, Field CTO at Harness, explains why as artificial intelligence (AI) tools are relied on more to create code, it’s now only a matter of time before bottlenecks in existing DevOps workflows become exacerbated to the point where they need to be re-engineered. Durkin noted that while AI is generating more code, organizations are […]
AI-Driven Observability: Fast, Context-Rich MCP Servers
Christine Yen—developer-turned-CEO—explains why Honeycomb built an MCP server and why every observability vendor may follow. MCP, short for Model Context Protocol, acts like a concierge for AI agents: It makes a product’s API, telemetry schema and helper tools easily discoverable so large-language models can ask precise questions instead of guessing. Yen sees it as table […]
Context on Tap: How MCP Servers Bridge AI Agents and DevOps Pipelines
Large language models can draft code or move artifacts, but without situational awareness they still trip over the basics. Cloudsmith CEO Glenn Weinstein tells Mike Vizard why a new piece of plumbing—the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server—is quickly becoming table stakes. Think of MCP as a receptionist for AI agents: it answers questions like “Which […]
Is Generative AI Replacing Junior Developers?
Generative AI tools aren’t just autocomplete for code—they’re reshaping the very first rung on the engineering career ladder. Host Mike Vizard asks Juan Salinas, VP of business development at Jalasoft, and software engineer Rolando Lora whether entry‑level developer jobs are about to disappear. Salinas is blunt: the routine, low‑risk tickets that once taught newcomers the ropes […]
Scaling DevOps: Tackling Infrastructure Automation
Spacelift CEO Pawel Hytry dives into the infrastructure automation challenges DevOps teams are facing following the picking up of an additional $51 million in financing. Infrastructure-as‑code was supposed to make provisioning easy—copy some Terraform, hit “apply,” and move on. In practice, teams soon discover that version‑controlled snippets are only half the story. Once dozens of […]
Fast Code, Real Risks: Guardrails for AI-Generated Software
Yonatan Arbel, developer advocate in the Office of the CTO at JFrog, dives into the potential risks and rewards of relying on artificial intelligence (AI) agents to build and deploy software. Yes, more code is shipping faster than ever, Arbel admits, but volume alone isn’t a win—each hastily synthesized line must still survive build servers, […]
How DevOps Strategy Is Evolving with Jim Cassens
Perforce Software CEO Jim Cassens dives into how the company’s overall approach to DevOps is evolving in the wake of a series of acquisitions. Cassens talks through the company’s recent spate of acquisitions and how thoughtful integration—not just portfolio expansion—is driving value for customers. He also highlights the growing role of synthetic data, AI-enhanced testing […]
How AI Is Transforming the Future of Software Development with Wing To
Digital.ai CTO Wing To delves into how the way code is written, deployed and managed will fundamentally change in the artificial intelligence (AI) era. Cutting through the extremes, AI won’t erase entry-level dev jobs, nor will it fully replace senior developers. Instead, it’s changing what both groups focus on. Entry-level devs will need to learn […]
GenAI in Software Development with Nathen Harvey
Nathen Harvey, DORA Lead at Google Cloud, delves into how generative AI is rapidly reshaping the software development landscape, presenting both exciting opportunities and complex challenges. Harvey reflects on his own journey, from early web operations and his time at Chef to leading the DORA program after its acquisition by Google. DORA (DevOps Research and […]
Feature Management’s Role in DevOps with Trevor Stuart
Trevor Stuart, general manager and senior vice president of Harness, explains how feature management is becoming a critical extension of DevOps workflows a year after the acquisition of Split Software. Feature management is fast becoming a critical pillar in modern DevOps workflows, especially as organizations seek to keep up with the rising volume and velocity […]
Building Complex Software at Scale with Tameem Hourani
RapDev founder Tameem Hourani dives into what it really takes for software engineering teams to develop and deploy complex software at scale. Hourani talks about the challenges of maintaining a blameless culture in DevOps, even as software complexity continues to grow. The discussion explores how teams can strike a balance between rapid innovation and system […]
2025 Predictions for DevOps and Application Development
Hi everyone. I’m Mitch Ashley, VP and practice lead for DevOps and application development with the Futurum Group. These are my predictions for 2025. First, 2025 is go-time for AI in production. A lot of AI projects have been stuck in the pilot and prototype phases. Matter of fact, some estimates say that only a […]
Open Source Software Security Concerns with Spike Curtis
Spike Curtis, principal engineer for Coder Technologies, dives into why open source software security concerns are valid, and why the only viable option is to invest more in securing software supply chains to mitigate potential threats. While open source benefits from community oversight, organizations must vet the projects they rely on to avoid security gaps. […]
Anjali Arora on DevOps Teams Embracing Platform Engineering
Anjali Arora, chief technology officer at Perforce Software, discusses the inefficiencies in DevOps infrastructure and the role of platform engineering in addressing them. She notes the shift from traditional IT-managed infrastructure to DevOps-driven provisioning, and how it’s led to a fragmented and costly environment. To counter this, organizations are turning to platform engineering to strike […]
Celebrating 10 Years of the North American DevOps Group with Jim Schild
Jim Schild, founder and head of community at the North American DevOps Group (NADOG), discusses the journey of building a DevOps community from the ground up. Originally an English literature major with aspirations of teaching, Jim found himself in the tech industry, eventually immersing himself in the DevOps space. In 2015, he launched NADOG as […]
Decentralized Application Development with Mathias Buus Madsen
Mathias Buus Madsen, CEO of Holepunch, joins the conversation to challenge the industry’s heavy reliance on centralized platforms. The tech world increasingly gravitates toward centralization and large data centers, and Mathias advocates for a return to the decentralized roots of the internet. He highlights how centralized systems, despite their efficiencies, introduce limitations like privacy concerns, […]