Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In this episode of Simple Talks, Louis, Steve, Kellyn and Grant get together to discuss the recently released State of the Database Landscape Report 2025, delving into topics around security, professional development and AI.

Is DevOps on the brink of extinction? Solomon Hykes, co-founder of Docker and CEO of Dagger.io, explores how AI agents are transforming software development—not just writing code but shipping it. In this talk at Civo Navigate San Francisco 2025, Solomon retraces the history of software’s industrial revolution and examines whether AI will replace DevOps engineers or empower them. With live demos and expert insights, he reveals what’s next for the software factory and the future of platform engineering.

Mariano, Staff Product Manager at Vercel, explains why serverless architectures are hitting unexpected limits—they’re too fast. The industry has spent millions optimizing serverless for speed, but AI workloads are changing the game. In the AI realm, slower execution often leads to better results. The challenge? Paying for all that idle compute time while waiting for AI responses.

Modern Kubernetes environments are increasingly growing in scale and complexity. While application performance monitoring and infra-observability tools were once sufficient to maintain reliability, they are ill-equipped to handle the distributed and ever-changing nature of dozens or hundreds of Kubernetes clusters.