Dmytro Spodarets Podcast #1: AI Agents, Scalr, OpenTofu, DevOps tools, MLOps, LLMops
Infrastructure trends, DevOps challenges, and bold predictions — including whether AI Agents could replace DevOps engineers.
Infrastructure trends, DevOps challenges, and bold predictions — including whether AI Agents could replace DevOps engineers.
Igor Savchenko is the CTO and co-founder of Scalr, a remote state and operation backend for Terraform and OpenTofu. He is also one of the co-founders of OpenTofu. During our conversation with Igor, we explored different DevOps tools, talked about infrastructure challenges and security. We also dived into MLOps, LLMops, and AI Agents, discussed the future of infrastructure, made some predictions, and talked about whether AI Agents could replace DevOps engineers.
Mercor recently confirmed it was victim to a security incident related to the compromise of the popular open-source project LiteLLM. Extortion group Lapsus$ has claimed responsibility for the attack, allegedly posting a sample of the stolen data on its leak site.
Legal tech startup Harvey has recently confirmed that it successfully raised $200 million at an $11 billion valuation. The round was co-led by returning investors GIC and Sequoia, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Conviction Partners, and Elad Gil, among others.
Wikipedia has implemented a new policy that bans AI-generated article creation and substantial rewrites. The ban on LLM usage was voted by Wikipedia's editor community, who found themselves increasingly overwhelmed by the non-stop flood of AI slop making its way into the encyclopedia.
Granola recently raised a $125M Series C at a $1.5B valuation. In addition to the round announcement, Granola also shared the three new features coming to the app: personal and enterprise APIs, an updated MCP, and Spaces for sharing and collaboration.
Interloom has raised a $16.5M seed round to develop a platform that captures undocumented operational expertise and transforms it into a permanent context layer for AI agents. With its "Context Graph", Interloom aims to address the critical knowledge gap that affects enterprise AI deployment.
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