About us
London DevOps AI marks a vital turning point in how we design, build, and run modern software systems. As artificial intelligence rapidly shifts from an novel add-on to a core operational engine, our community is coming together to move past the hype, share real-world practices, and address the practical challenges standing between experimental AI and production-grade engineering.
Together, we will focus on resolving key operational and cultural hurdles:
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Navigating AI in Platform Engineering: Defining how Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) must evolve. We will explore how to safely integrate AI agents into deployment pipelines, environment provisioning, and automated troubleshooting without compromising system stability or security.
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Tackling Code Quality and Review Bottlenecks: While AI tools dramatically speed up code generation, they can easily create downstream friction. We will address how to manage increased code velocity, maintain rigorous architecture standards, and streamline pull requests without overwhelming human reviewers.
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Operational Reliability and Risk Management: Machine learning models introduce probabilistic outcomes into previously deterministic systems. We will investigate how to handle model hallucinations, ensure observability in AI-driven workflows, and implement effective governance and cost management (FinOps) around LLM usage.
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Preserving and Adapting DevOps Culture: DevOps has always been about people, shared responsibility, and continuous feedback. We will resolve how to prevent AI from creating new silos or cognitive fatigue, ensuring that automation amplifies engineering teams rather than isolating them.
By bringing engineers, platform leaders, and operators into the same room, London DevOps AI provides a collaborative space to demystify these shifts, turn friction into best practices, and actively shape the future of software delivery.
Upcoming events
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London DevOps AI #001
AutogenAI, 123 Pentonville Rd, London N1 9LG, UK, London, GBAfter 100 meetups as London DevOps, we kick off our refreshed identity with London DevOps AI meetup #001 at Autogen AI. We will have two talks exploring AI's transformative impact on technical operations: Paul Stack demonstrates how AI agents, when properly guardrailed, can empower SREs to eliminate backlog toil, while Hannah Foxwell shows how treating security teams as platform users can help them keep pace with an increasingly AI-powered threat landscape. And there will be drinks and pizza as usual too.
Schedule
6:00pm -Arrival
6:45pm - Introductions
7:00pm - The TalksWhy SREs and AI Agents Are a Perfect Match – Real demos, real infrastructure, real failures (Paul Stack)
"We all have a backlog we'll never get to: infrastructure left in a state that'll take a day to untangle, toil that's always urgent, never prioritised, and deeply unsexy. AI agents are built for this work. Not because they're smarter than you, but because they don't get bored, skip steps, or lose context across a hundred resources.
Most teams get this wrong by pointing agents at infrastructure with raw API access and hoping for the best. That's gambling. Guardrails that encode how your infrastructure works make agents predictable: deterministic output from a probabilistic system. Those same guardrails capture critical knowledge, reducing bus factor to zero.Real demos, real infrastructure, real failures. Agents handle the toil. SREs focus on work that actually needs a human. You're not being replaced. You're being empowered. This talk shows how SREs and platform engineers can pair with AI agents to tackle the work that's been rotting in the backlog, and why the SRE skill set is exactly what agents need."
Paul Stack is Co-founder and VP Product & Engineering at Swamp Club.
Platform as a Product: What happens when we treat security as a user? (Hannah Foxwell)
"Security teams are suffering from information overload and alert fatigue. They are outnumbered by developers and the pace of change keeps accelerating. The endless list of CVEs just gets longer and longer and "AI transformation" brings with it new attack vectors and emerging risks. And now hackers come equipped with swarms of AI agents. If there is a chink in your cyber-armour an AI agent will find it and exploit it.
The pressure has never been greater. How can internal platforms help security teams? If we treat security teams as platform users, and listen to their needs, suddenly the answers come into focus. In this talk Hannah will share what she's learned from building platforms that delight both developers and security."
Hannah Foxwell is co-founder of BIMP and creator of AI for the rest of us.
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