The industry keeps talking about DevOps like it’s the future. But here’s the truth: we’ve already moved past it. The tools, the workflows, the entire philosophy—it’s all being disrupted by AI, automation, and a fundamentally different way of thinking about software delivery.
I recently spoke with BetaNews about life after DevOps and why the next generation of engineering teams will look nothing like what we have today.
Here’s what we covered:
DevOps solved yesterday’s problem—but created new bottlenecks. I talked about how DevOps was revolutionary when it emerged, breaking down silos between development and operations. But now? It’s become its own form of overhead. Teams spend more time managing pipelines, configurations, and toolchains than actually shipping value. At Alive Devops, we’re building for what comes next: fully automated systems that eliminate the manual orchestration DevOps still requires.
The future isn’t “NoOps”—it’s intelligent operations. We dove into why the conversation shouldn’t be about removing operations entirely, but about making operations invisible. AI isn’t just automating deployments—it’s predicting failures, optimizing resource allocation, and making architectural decisions in real time. I shared how we’re already seeing teams scale faster with fewer engineers because the infrastructure is self-managing. That’s not hypothetical—it’s happening now.
The teams that win are the ones rebuilding from first principles. One of the most critical points from the conversation was this: incremental improvements to DevOps won’t get you there. You can’t optimize your way into the next paradigm. The companies dominating in five years will be the ones willing to challenge every assumption about how software gets built and delivered. That’s the mindset we bring to every project—rethinking the entire stack, not just tweaking the tools.
If you’ve ever felt like your DevOps setup is more burden than benefit, this conversation will validate everything you’ve been thinking.
Read the full Q&A on BetaNews →
The future belongs to teams that automate operations, not just improve them.