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.
Anthropic launched an expanded suite of legal AI tools featuring over 20 MCP connectors for Claude that enable it to connect to platforms like Thomson Reuters and DocuSign, plus 12 practice-area plugins designed to assist with specific legal work.
Samsara launched four AI-powered products for public sector agencies—Ground Intelligence, Waste Intelligence, enhanced AI Multicam, and Ridership Management—to help governments modernize operations and improve community safety.
Beijing-based Moonshot AI raised $2 billion at a $20 billion valuation, quintupling its value in six months as investor interest in Chinese open-weight AI models surges due to increased customer demand.
Tekst raised $13.5 million in Series A funding to build its "Process Intelligence" technology that helps AI agents understand and automate complex enterprise workflows by automatically mapping the unwritten rules and context hidden in emails, documents, and institutional knowledge.
Google DeepMind launched Gemma 4 in April, a family of open-source AI models under Apache 2.0 license that delivers state-of-the-art reasoning across four sizes—including two edge-optimized models that run autonomous agentic workflows entirely offline on mobile and IoT devices.
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