In this episode of DevOps Accents, Leo, Pablo and Kirill look back at their own predictions for 2025 they made in 2024 and compare it to what actually happened. In this episode:
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Kirill previews for Leo his speech for DevOps Pro Europe 2026. He examines the rise of Kubernetes as a near-requirement in tech—for both organizations and professionals—and why its dominance has surprisingly little to do with scaling, microservices, or capacity concerns. Also in this conversation:
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In this episode of DevOps Accents Kirill is back from Bits & Pretzels 2025 in Munich and is ready to discuss the conference experience with Leo and Pablo. We also talk about networking and tech hiring in 2025 and anywhere ops. In this episode:
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Chat GPT affects yout ability to think critically! But does it actually make you “dumber,” or does it free up mental bandwidth for more meaningful work?
Together with data scientist Paul Larsen, we unpack recent studies from Microsoft and MIT, real cases from software development and education, and translate it into practical rules: when it’s safe to delegate to AI and when you should deliberately “work the mental muscles” yourself (code review, testing, architectural decisions).
We also touch on the org-level effect: what happens to a team’s skills if engineers become AI babysitters, and how to build proper model monitoring and evaluation instead of endless human-in-the-loop, and what companies can do to minimize risks.
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• Survey of knowledge workers: higher trust in GenAI correlates with less critical-thinking engagement. Microsoft Research
• LLM-assisted writing reduced recall and neural engagement; 83% in the LLM group couldn’t accurately quote their own text. MIT Media Lab
• After habituation to AI support, endoscopists’ without-AI accuracy dropped (−6 percentage points ADR). The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology
• A high-schooler’s first-person account of AI disrupting classroom learning. The Atlantic
• Relational/graph foundation model for enterprise predictive apps; background + papers. Kumo.ai · Research
• GenAI cyber-risk in practice: threat model and developer guidance by Paul Larsen. Article 1 · Article 2
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Data Science 2.0 is the shift from dashboards to decision workflows. Suzanne El-Moursi shows how teams can go beyond “reports nobody trusts” to agentic, governed analytics, using a pragmatic stack (infrastructure → composable tools → governance) so insight can flow from ingestion through modeling, validation, and visualization without the usual stalls. We focus on how the data scientist role evolves from dashboard factory to orchestration and stewardship so the right decision happens at the right time. Also in this episode:
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About Suzanne El-Moursi: Co-founder & CEO of Brighthive, a Chicago-based platform building agentic AI for the data lifecycle (BrightAgent) with governance built in; earlier leadership stints at IBM and GE Healthcare; and a board member at Uniting Voices Chicago.
Kubernetes alone isn’t enough! This is what we discuss with Mark Fussell, co-creator of Dapr and Diagrid co-founder. How Dapr’s sidecar gives developers clean APIs (pub/sub, service invocation, secrets, state) with tiny overhead? And how durable workflows and “agentic” apps with Dapr Agents actually function? Also in this epsiode:
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If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ve definitely heard a lot about Vibe Coding. Some drag it through the mud, others meme it to death , some treat it like a guilty pleasure, and then there are those who embrace it openly, seeing it as the future. We decided to dig into the phenomenon and start with the perspective of someone who’s building a product that’s taking Vibe Coding to the next level. Our guest for episode 61 of DevOps Accents is Tammuz Dubnov from AutonomyAI. In this episode:
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As you can see, adopting AI into your business isn't always straightforward. Processes shift, impact isn’t always obvious, and change can feel messy. But one thing’s for sure — you can’t afford to ignore it. We help you make sense of it all. Start by talking to our Data & AI experts, they’ll help you figure out where to begin and how to scale smart.
Also, don’t miss our AI Strategy Guide: How to Scale AI Across Your Business, a must-read for anyone making AI decisions.
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Should we pay more attention to our workplace mental health? For episode 60 of DevOps Accents, our guests are Samuele Monasterolo, Lorenzo Grassi and Fabio Ciravegna from Welbemo, an Italian startup for workplace wellbeing assessment. In this episode:
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In episode 59 of DevOps Accents, friend of the podcast Darko Fabijan is back to talk about the Community Edition of Semaphore CI. Why did Semaphore go Open Source, what had to be done to do so, and what awaits us going forward? In this episode:
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For episode 58 of DevOps Accents, Paul Larsen, our Head of Data & AI, is back at the microphone to discuss EU AI Act and its consequences for businesses big and small. In this episode:
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In episode 57 of DevOps Accents Alessandro Ceni, Lorenzo Cardini and Pio Scielzo from Teticum join Leo to discuss the new possibilities of AI agents for e-commerce. From identifying the problem to choosing the right tools to the issues you might face implementing your new solution, they take you through a whole journey of their startup. In this episode:
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Ever feel like Kubernetes is just... too much? You're not alone! This time we're asking the tough questions: Has cloud-native infrastructure, especially Kubernetes, become unnecessarily complex? Is it really fair to expect every developer to become a Kubernetes guru? What's the cost of this complexity?
We're diving into insights from Gerrit Schumann of mogenius, exploring why this complexity is happening. Are we drowning in a sea of ever-evolving tech? Is there a better way? Can self-service platforms actually simplify things? And most importantly, what can we do about it?
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Fraud, scamming, identity theft and synthetic identities: this time on DevOps Accents Leo and Pablo talk these big topics with Katarina Pranjić from LexisNexis Risk Solutions. In this episode:
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Is customer support fundamentally broken in our day and age? What should you focus on deciding on your customer support solution? Is there something new we can try to improve this process? For episode 54 of DevOps Accents Leo and Pablo talk Caolan Melvin from VoxMail, a company that transcribes and analyses audio messages from your customers and provides new ways for support. In this episode:
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For episode 53 of DevOps Accents join the whole trio of Leo, Pablo and Kirill in conversation with Maks Semyonovykh, Strategic Account Manager at Miro, an online platform for collaboration that provides a shared digital whiteboard space. In this episode:
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In which spheres can LLMs already be really useful? What can you do to combat famous AI hallucinations? How to secure your information when working with AI tools? For episode 52 of DevOps Accents Leo and Pablo invited Juan Pablo from CodeGPT to talk about their project and the whole AI space in 2024. In this episode:
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What was the beginning of DevOps like? How does your project change when you spend more than a decade with it? In episode 51 of DevOps Accents our guest is Thomas Falkenberg from PAYBACK, a multi-partner loyalty program well-known in Europe, he has been working with since 2007. Also in this episode:
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What is the place for GPUs in the modern Cloud environment? How did we come to them being so integral for AI and is the naming now a bit confusing for general public? What can we expect from this area? Our guest for episode 50 of DevOps Accents is Veronica Nigro, the co-founder of mkinf, a company providing access to distributed GPUs worldwide.
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How to build your team? How to manage engineers and developers? Can you hire one magical being that can do it all and forget all about it? (Spoiler: No, no you can’t). In episode 49 of DevOps Accents Leo and Pablo talk to Elin Brusberg, Head of Development at Vitec Megler. In this episode:
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What do people misunderstand about aerospace engineers? What future do electric engines bring to aircrafts? How does QA work in aviation? Today we take a break from our usual DevOps and Cloud talk to have a conversation with Ignacio Echavarría, an aerospace engineer and CTO at Dovetail Electric Aviation.
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