DevOpsDays Zurich 2026
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Recap | 02m | |
Two days at Alte Kaserne capture a Swiss DevOps meetup that focuses on concrete practices: sessions cover AI agents in ops, platform engineering, DORA metrics… | ||
| Engineering & Ethics: Responsibility by Design | Bertrand Delacretaz | 37m |
Argues that teams should use a concrete assessment, the digital ethics canvas, to list benefits, harms, mitigations and tradeoffs for any system; the canvas… | ||
| Your Systems Aren't Stuck - Your Teams Are | Limor Bergman Gross | 41m |
Claims that outages and slow delivery stem from leadership patterns not tech, backed by DigitalOcean-era examples: a Perl monolith with one on-call expert, a… | ||
| Agents in Action: How Google is Automating Operational Toil | Maria-Hendrike Peetz | 19m |
Google builds a system using LLMs and agents to clear routine on‑call ticket toil for parts of the org, not for production emergencies, and runs it dry-run… | ||
| From Gut Feel to Evidence: What DORA Metrics Actually Tell Us | Egor Savochkin | 25m |
Shows how DORA metrics plus a Process Behavior Chart turn opinions into testable hypotheses: measure one outcome, pick the highest‑leverage change, verify… | ||
| From Firefighting to Flow | Olga Kristjansdottir | 22m |
Joined a wholesale fiber provider in Iceland in early 2025 to build a software team and architecture that stop the firefighting loop. Implements limit work in… | ||
| Automated Root Cause Analysis | Melchior Thambipillai | 24m |
Swisscom builds Mosaic: a distributed‑tracing pipeline that ingests spans via Tempo and Kafka, converts span chains into functions with three metrics (calls… | ||
| The playbook for a sovereign Model-as-a-Service platform | Camille Nigon | 27m |
A concrete blueprint for running a private MaaS on Kubernetes that uses OpenShift AI + LLMd + OCI/Quay to pull weights, expose OpenAI-compatible endpoints and… | ||
| Scaling DevOps Without Scaling Ops | Gang Luo, Kristina Kondrashevich | 20m |
Company scales IoT dev org from 10 to over 300 while ops headcount stays almost flat, so platform engineering replaces scaled SRE processes. An Internal… | ||
| When Your "New Teammate" Hallucinates: Observability as the Safety Net for AI Code | Florian Mair | 25m |
Argues that observability must be baked into AI-generated code by default and shows a working feedback loop: an agent uses repo skills and a pipeline skill to… | ||
| Taming the Metal: Platform Engineering for HPC | Michele Brambilla | 05m |
Alps is a 2,500‑node, 10,000‑GPU system (430 beta flops) turned into immutable, software‑defined clusters using the vCluster framework and a merged ops+dev… | ||
| Speak Up: Your Story Matters | Iris Hunkeler | 05m |
Covers four concrete excuses that stop people from speaking — being nervous, thinking nothing is worth sharing, not knowing where to apply, and handling… | ||
| Neurodiversity: An Underrated Superpower in Business | Vera Herzmann | 05m |
Claims that neurodiversity is a strategic advantage, backed by concrete figures: 19% prevalence in tech (so ~47 of 250 people) and teams with neurodivergent… | ||
| Planning Theater: The Play That's Killing Your Delivery | Peter Zylka-Greger, Benjamin Huser-Berta | 05m |
Organizations set 12 weeks, 40 features on a spreadsheet and declare dates while delivery data tells a different story: velocity spikes then stalls with an 80%… | ||
| Excellent collaboration. The basics. | Denniz Dönmez, Simon Berg | 05m |
Claims a clear difference between coordination and deep collaboration, argues collaboration is a small-team, low-scale phenomenon and reports about 40% of… | ||
| How to design Observability before you buy it | Pallavi Agrawal | 05m |
Claim: projects buy observability platforms and still fight noisy alerts and high MTTR because they skip upfront design. The proposed SRE-driven framework… | ||
| What is a Scrum Master good for? | Eszter Torda | 05m |
Defines Scrum Master as driving efficiency at org and team level by setting up an Agile working environment, increasing transparency, connecting teams and… | ||
| Why your CI/CD processes should include your ERP systems | Martin Fischer | 05m |
Claims that two-speed IT is an illusion because ERP acts as an enterprise backbone tied to microservices via APIs, so independent cadences (yearly, quarterly… | ||
| Dr. Strangepod or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI | Bastian Spanneberg | 06m |
Adoption journey from outright rejection to daily use of LLMs for SRE work, claiming concrete wins: LLMs fix production issues without engineers by suggesting… | ||
| Pragmatic AI Adopton is Hard! | Lena Fuhrimann | 05m |
Claims that adoption fails from “cool tool” rush and instead AI strategy workshop identifies high‑impact, low‑risk uses and creates an AI policy that defines… | ||
| Why Living Documentation is Cool | Antonio Alvino | 05m |
Claims that tests double as documentation by using living documentation generated from BDD feature files and executed with Serenity BDD. Shows concrete… | ||
| DevOps on 36 Ton Machines: Shipping Software to Autonomous Excavators in the Desert | Sandro Meier | 05m |
A 36‑ton autonomous excavator runs day after day in the Argentine desert with intermittent 10 megabit per second links, constant vibration, dust and water that… | ||
| Cutting 2/3rds of your cloud costs with common sense | Simon Falsig | 05m |
A robotics cloud stack cuts costs by two thirds over a year by combining a simple cost model with resource tagging to create visibility and team ownership… | ||
| Kill the Project. Build a Team. | Timo Böhm | 05m |
Argues that reliability fails when treated as timeboxed projects and shows an alternative: dismantle the Gantt, hire a small core team of 0.2 FTE security and… | ||
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