Dec 22, 2025

Making Codebases Agent Ready – Eno Reyes, Factory AI

The effectiveness of AI coding agents is not limited by model quality, but by "Agent Readiness"—the state of your development environment. This talk explains why agents fail on codebases with flaky tests, low validation, and tribal knowledge. It introduces a framework for improving your environment's readiness through rigorous verification, automated validation, and a shift to specification-driven development, arguing this is the key to unlocking 5-7x productivity gains and enabling true software engineering autonomy.

Dec 16, 2025

Flexible Orchestration for AI & ML: Beyond Kubernetes Automation

Explore the concept of flexible workload orchestration as a unified solution to manage diverse application types, from traditional web services to complex AI/ML pipelines. This approach simplifies operations, breaks down tooling silos, and provides a future-proof infrastructure for evolving AI technologies.

Dec 15, 2025

CI/CD Evolution: From Pipelines to AI-Powered DevOps • Olaf Molenveld & Julian Wood • GOTO 2025

Olaf Molenveld (CircleCI) and Julian Wood (AWS) discuss the evolution of CI/CD practices. They draw parallels between managing production code and the 'factory' that produces it, covering optimization strategies, local vs. remote development, the rise of platform engineering, and how AI is reshaping DevOps by acting as both an expert system and a guarded collaborator.

Oct 23, 2025

Fundamentals of DevOps & Software Delivery • Yevgeniy "Jim" Brikman & Kief Morris • GOTO 2025

Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman, author and co-founder of Gruntwork, discusses the pragmatic definition of DevOps as a methodology for efficient software delivery, born from his experience with a deployment crisis at LinkedIn. The conversation with Kief Morris explores the modern infrastructure stack, the critical role of frameworks over custom scripts, and emerging paradigms like Infrastructure from Code and interactive runbooks.

Oct 21, 2025

Platform Engineering: From Theory to Practice • Liz Fong-Jones & Lesley Cordero

Liz Fong-Jones and Lesley Cordero explore the evolution of platform engineering from its DevOps and SRE roots, discussing the challenges of building effective developer platforms, the importance of psychological safety, the complexities of open source sustainability, and the delicate balance between centralized platform teams and developer autonomy.

Oct 17, 2025

Infrastructure as Code • Kief Morris & Abby Bangser

Kief Morris, author of 'Infrastructure as Code', and Abby Bangser discuss the evolution of IaC over the past decade. They explore the move from server configuration to complex cloud architectures, the limitations of current tooling, and the need for higher-level abstractions, while also looking ahead to the potential impact of AI and the critical role of platform engineering in connecting infrastructure to specific business needs.