Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Most engineering roadmaps are built around certainty, but that model is beginning to break down. When the way people interact with software is changing this quickly, exploration stops being a side project and starts becoming the day-to-day.

AI adoption in DevOps is accelerating, but trust, accuracy, and real-world usability still matter. In this conversation, Jason St-Cyr sits down with Jessica Gao, Product Manager at Puppet, to unpack how AI is actually being used in infrastructure and operations teams today, and what’s changed over the last 12–18 months. They dive into why enterprises are moving past generic code generation tools and toward domain-specific, MCP-powered AI that integrates directly into existing workflows.

In this demo, Nate Zemanek , Staff Solutions Engineer, shows how Cribl Search runs fast investigations. As an open data platform, Cribl Search lets you pull data from multiple sources and query everything from a single pane of glass. You’ll see how to run fast queries with the new lakehouse engine, search historical data with a federated approach, and bring everything together for full context. Then, use Notebooks to collaborate and share findings across teams to understand what happened—faster.