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Diffs Are Dead. Why You Need Scalable Previews. (Tue, 17 Feb 2026)
The software development lifecycle (SDLC) is going through a massive shift as coding agents become increasingly ubiquitous in the industry. While this has very visible impacts that have been widely documented, it also results in more subtle changes that are less obvious. I noticed one of those changes recently: code review has all but died without us noticing. I have seen this happen on my own engineering team. Senior engineers known for meticulous review are approving pull requests (PRs) within minutes.
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Trust No Agent: How to Secure Autonomous Tools on Your Machine (Tue, 17 Feb 2026)
Two weeks ago, one of my friends called me and asked if it was a good idea to install OpenClaw on a personal machine. The immediate thought that crossed my mind was how about security and how to reduce the blast radius if the OpenClaw is compromised. Autonomous agent tools are reshaping how we work. Tools like OpenClaw and Picoclaw can write code, make API calls, read files, and interact with external services on your behalf. They're incredibly useful. But they're also a significant security risk if you don't know what you're doing. Over the past few weeks, I have been working with these tools on my Mac and Linux workstations. I have friends running agents with full access to their home directory. They have stored API keys in plaintext environment files. They have connected agent machines to their main network with no isolation. Each time we interact, I realize how quickly things could go wrong.
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The Human-in-the-Loop AI: Reviving the Lost Art of Procedure Manuals (Tue, 17 Feb 2026)
We often treat “automation” and “documentation” as enemies. The prevailing DevOps wisdom is that if you have a runbook, you should automate it into a script. If you can’t automate it, you tolerate it as toil. However, in complex cloud operations (CloudOps), there are persistent “Non-Automated Domain” tasks that require human judgment, complex troubleshooting, or legacy system interaction. When these tasks fail, it’s rarely because the engineer lacked skill; it’s because the documentation was ambiguous, outdated, or written by someone who left the company three years ago.
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Beyond Ingestion: Teaching Your NiFi Flows to Think (Tue, 17 Feb 2026)
If you are working with data pipelines, chances are you have crossed paths with Apache NiFi. For years, it's been the go-to way for getting data from point A to point B (and often C, D, and E). Its visual interface makes building complex routing, transformation, and delivery flows surprisingly easy, handling everything from simple log collection to intricate IoT data streams across countless organizations. It's powerful, it's flexible, and honestly, it just works really well for shuffling bits around reliably. We set up our sources, connect our processors, define our destinations, and watch the data flow — job done, right? AI Opportunity Well, mostly. While Apache NiFi is fantastic at the logistics of data movement, I started wondering: what if we could make the data smarter while it's still in motion? We hear about AI everywhere, crunching massive datasets after they've landed in a data lake or warehouse. But what about adding that intelligence during ingestion? Imagine enriching events, making routing decisions based on predictions, or flagging anomalies before the data even hits its final storage.
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DevOps Cafe Podcast

DevOps Cafe Ep 79 - Guests: Joseph Jacks and Ben Kehoe (Mon, 13 Aug 2018)
Triggered by Google Next 2018, John and Damon chat with Joseph Jacks (stealth startup) and Ben Kehoe (iRobot) about their public disagreements — and agreements — about Kubernetes and Serverless. 
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DevOps Cafe Ep 78 - Guest: J. Paul Reed (Mon, 23 Jul 2018)
John and Damon chat with J.Paul Reed (Release Engineering Approaches) about the field of Systems Safety and Human Factors that studies why accidents happen and how to minimize the occurrence and impact. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org
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DevOps Cafe Ep. 77 - Damon interviews John (Wed, 20 Jun 2018)
A new season of DevOps Cafe is here. The topic of this episode is "DevSecOps." Damon interviews John about what this term means, why it matters now, and the overall state of security.  Show notes at http://devopscafe.org
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