Program:
- Short network and welcome by Aarhus DevOps
- Talk: "The DevOps Retrospective and the Road Ahead " by Stefan Daugaard Poulsen, Solution Architect at Eficode
- Network with snacks
- Lightning talk 1: "The Era of Agency" by Vihren Petrov, DevOps Consultant at Eficode
- Lightning talk 2: TBA
The DevOps Retrospective and the Road Ahead:
For years the DevOps journey has been put front and center in many organizations. We have seen many reap the benefits of improved collaboration, faster delivery times, and higher quality software.
However, this journey has not been without its challenges. Looking back we have seen just as many failures and cargo cult results as success stories.
When we ask developers what they would like to work on it is more often their business domain and mastering their programming language of choice, rather than understanding infrastructure, dissecting fragmented toolchains, or managing complex deployments. Did the DevOps balloon burst and let the developers pay the ultimate price?
All in all, many organizations end up asking if it was worth the investment or a sunk cost. While it might sound as a grim fairy tale we will look deeper into the good, the bad and the ugly bits of the DevOps movement when applied in organizations.
Looking at the road ahead it has a big platform engineering label, that means we have to figure out what to leave behind, what to put on life support and what to bring along for the road trip. We will explore what the differences are between devops and platform engineering, while making sure we focus on bringing happiness back to our engineers.
The Era of Agency:
This Lightning talk will explore how AI agents will shape the future of (among other things) software development, and how can they both disrupt, but also empower people in ways we might not have thought of previously.
