Enterprise Architecture is a big word that hangs heavy in the air. What does it actually mean for your organisation, and how does AI fit into the picture? In this talk, which I gave at the HSLU (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts) in association with the Digital Veterans Association, I explore how Enterprise Architecture, platform engineering, and AI come together as a strategic lever for modern organisations.
Many organizations build machine learning prototypes that never make it into production. MLOps provides the practices, culture, and architecture to bridge this gap.
What This Talk Covers # This presentation outlines how MLOps helps organizations move machine learning from isolated prototypes into reliable production systems. It frames MLOps as more than a technical setup: a mindset, culture, and set of practices that unify development and operations across the full ML lifecycle, including experimentation, training, deployment, serving, monitoring, and retraining.
Flagsmith’s playbook for banks that want to modernize how they build software without trading away the controls a regulator expects. I wrote the introduction.
Banking is where the tension between speed and safety is sharpest, and where the usual answer has been to pick safety and live with the release cycle. The playbook works through the alternative: continuous delivery, feature flags, platform engineering, and the audit and access controls that make all three acceptable in a regulated environment.
In this episode of the Ship It podcast, Gerhard Lazu and I have a deep conversation about what good DevOps looks like in practice. We talk about the real challenges companies face during transformations, how to deal with middle management resistance, technology choices, and where the industry is heading with AIOps and hyper automation.
This talk is a recording of my presentation at the FI-Forum in Frankfurt am Main in November 2023. The topic: the Platform Plane and how to develop high-quality software in record time. Platform engineering is the foundation of the digital factory and enables teams to truly practice DevOps.
Many people still think DevOps is only for web applications and cloud services. But the reality is clear: companies that apply DevOps principles to embedded systems are outpacing their competition. In this talk, which I gave at a DevOps Meetup in Munich, I explore why embedded teams need DevOps and how to build a Digital Factory that enables continuous value delivery, even for hardware products.
In this episode of Tech Chat with Navika Chadha, a Cloud Engineer and Microsoft MVP, we had a deep conversation about Platform Engineering: what it is, how it differs from DevOps, why companies should adopt it, and what skills are needed. The discussion cuts through the buzz and click-bait headlines to explain why DevOps is very much alive and how Platform Engineering complements it.
This is a recording of my presentation at the DevOps Meetup Zurich from January 2024. The talk covers Developer Experience and Platform Engineering, including why Platform Engineering has emerged, how it fits into the Digital Factory concept, and a live demo of the Platform Plane, the internal developer platform we built together with LGT.
For the 90 Days of DevOps community, I presented the concept of the digital factory. After years of doing DevOps transformations across industries at Zühlke, I have developed a holistic approach to scaling DevOps that goes beyond just tools and pipelines. In this talk, I explain why we still struggle with walls of confusion, how platform engineering enables teams to do DevOps at scale, and how digital factories bring everything together.
I joined Eveline Oehrlich, Chief Research Officer at the DevOps Institute, on the Humans of DevOps podcast for a conversation about whether DevOps is dead. Spoiler: it is not. But the reality in most companies is that we have not progressed as far as many people think. In this episode, we talk about what a Chief of DevOps actually does, why companies still struggle with walls of confusion, how platform engineering enables scaling, and my prediction about digital factories.
Every year, I go through the latest reports, articles, and industry discussions to compile a comprehensive view of the DevOps trends shaping our industry. For 2024, I mapped every major trend onto the technology adoption lifecycle to give you a clear picture of where each technology, methodology, or capability stands in terms of adoption. This framework helps you understand not just what is trending, but how mature each trend really is.
In this episode of the DevTalk podcast, my colleague Kerry Lothrop and I have a conversation about the state of DevOps. We have known each other for many years at Zühlke, and Kerry wanted to pick my brain on what DevOps really means today, where companies struggle, and where the industry is heading.
