▶ Interview
Co-author of The DevOps Handbook, John Willis breaks down why AI agents mean we have to redefine everything we know about security, and how governance must evolve to avoid catastrophic failures.
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▶ INTERVIEWMendral's Sam Alba on how coding agents are threatening an overloaded CI/CD pipeline. What Mendral's doing about it, what it means for DevOps and their experience through Y Combinator.
✎ ARTICLEThe five barriers standing between enterprise AI pilots and broad deployment, and why the technical blockers are the easier ones.
▶ INTERVIEWAuthZed's Jimmy Zelinski on why broken authorization is now OWASP's #1 threat, and how SpiceDB secures everything from cloud-native apps to ChatGPT connectors.
▶ INTERVIEWQodo's Itamar Friedman on "viable coding", keeping developer flow while verifying code integrity, whether the code came from a human or an AI. (Part of the We Love Open Source series)
✎ ARTICLEA walk through the AI data pipeline from Solidigm: where the data piles up, and what storage type maps with which stage and why.
✎ ARTICLEHow a small Chinese firm's open, MIT-licensed model wiped a trillion dollars off the Nasdaq in a day, and what it says about an industry that is betting everything on scale.
Conversation with co-creator Craig McLuckie.
Inaugural Design Summit, Lew Moorman on their "open alternative to AWS."
Co-founder Alexis Le-Quoc explains their monitoring tool.
CEO Ben Golub, 6 months after their first public demo.
I've spent more than three decades in tech, focusing on open source, developer ecosystems, and enterprise platform strategy, and now bringing that experience to bear on AI and its effect on software development.
My career includes more than a decade each at Dell Technologies and Sun Microsystems. At Dell, I founded and led Project Sputnik, growing it from a $40K experiment into a Linux developer laptop and workstation portfolio generating tens of millions in annual revenue. My career began in Tokyo at Sony's workstation division, where I worked entirely in Japanese.
On the personal front, I grew up in Honolulu, attended Williams College and Harvard Business School. Almost 20 years ago, my family and I moved from Silicon Valley to Austin. One of the best moves we've ever made.
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808 is the area code for Hawaii, where I was born and raised. When I started, "@barton" wasn't available so I tacked on 808 and became "@barton808".
