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.
OpenAI released GPT-5.5, a model that achieves state-of-the-art performance across coding, knowledge work, and scientific research while preserving efficiency. GPT-5.5 marks progress toward OpenAI's vision of an AI "super app" combining ChatGPT, Codex, and browser capabilities.
Tomorrow marks the opening of Imagine Next — Silicon Valley’s Global Climate Tech Capital Summit, bringing together founders, investors, corporates, and system leaders to accelerate planet-first innovation.
Loop raised $95 million in Series C funding led by Valor Equity Partners to scale its AI platform that transforms fragmented supply chain data into actionable intelligence, addressing operational and financial decision-making across logistics, finance, and enterprise workflows.
Canva launched AI 2.0, an agentic design platform powered by its custom Canva Design Model that generates fully layered, editable designs from prompts and features six new intelligent workflows.
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