DevOps Accents

The internet is “decentralized”… until one cloud provider has a bad day. This time on DevOps Accents, Leo, Pablo, and Kirill break down where decentralization actually exists, where we’ve centralized by convenience, and why outages feel inevitable in today’s cloud-driven world. In this episode: What “decentralized internet” really means — protocols vs. reality Why major outages (Cloudflare, AWS, D...

AI now codes faster than most engineers but it also confidently makes stuff up. The “AI made me a 10x dev” story sounds great online, yet many AI-driven projects quietly collapse, and teams pretend they’re not using it. The real value isn’t writing code anymore; it’s steering AI, setting boundaries, and catching its mistakes. Without strong code review, AI becomes a liability. With it, it’s a mass...

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: The fear and secrecy of using AI tools; AI agents in 2025; The progress in vibe coding; The AI bubble; Quantum computing and security concerns; What else can we expect from 2026? Check out our website to learn more about t...

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: How to become a public speaker? When not to use Kubernetes? Do we...

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: Kirill’s impressions of Bits & Pretzels 2025; The pitch contest on the conference; The networking role of conferences; Changes in traditional recrui...

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...

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 evolv...

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: A short history of architecture models; Differences between service...

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...

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: The beginnings of Welbemo; The startup environment in Italy; Mental health and wellbeing in the tech industry; How can you measure burnout and anxie...

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: Open Source licensing and community collaboration; The impact of Open Source on business and development; Infrastructure and security considerations; CI/CD...

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: The speed of implementation of EU AI Act; Total AI freedom for defence; AI risk categories; Understanding AI high risk; AI literacy push. Check out our website to learn more about the services mkdev offers for c...

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: How to become an entrepreneur? What to say t...

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...

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: How digital revolution reshaped the fraud landscape; How to fight fake identities created with AI? How does a company fight against targeted AI attacks? What are synthetic identities? Can we trust our govern...

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: How...

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: History of Miro; Online vs. Offline events; The rising role of AI agents; Using LLMs for creative work; Synchronous and asynchronous collaboratio...

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: The story of CodeGPT; The difference in AI tools usage in your company; The growt...

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: The health of the infrastructure; How to choose a platform; The beginnings of platform engineering;...

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. How GPUs are used in cloud infrastructure; Should we...

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: 10x developer — what is that? Building a functioning team vs. relying on that one guy; How to keep your engin...

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. How to become an aerospace engineer? The carbon footprint issue and the problem of scale; Qual...

Our guest for this episode of DevOps Accents has taken tech blogging to a whole new level. You may know him as Iximiuz or Ivan Velichko. We discuss how tech blogging was born, how insightful content is created and consumed by tens of thousands of subscribers, and how a hobby becomes a career. We also discuss his Iximiuz Labs, an indie online platform for learning Linux, containers, and Kubernetes...

In this episode, we dive deep into generative AI with Álvaro Sáez , creator of an AI tool Current Anima that transforms text prompts into 3D scenes. Álvaro explains how his technology works and what skills you need to have to build something like this and how difficult it is to build an AI startup in 2024. Alvaro's AI tool that generates 3D scenes from text prompts. The role of Unreal Engine i...

Cloud Cost Management has kind of taken over as the top concern for organizations. Pablo, Leo and Kirill come together to analyze the numbers from the Flexera State of the Cloud Report in episode 45 of DevOps Accents. 27% of Cloud waste, is that a lot? What is FinOps and what is its role? What are the reasons for the overspent increase? Are multi-cloud organizations on the rise? Disaster recovery....