“Server ops is annoying,” said Yanacek, a trim man of 42 with a gray beard and jittery intensity.
That is an accurate reflection of me that I had not considered before.
The story talks about how #AWSDevOpsAgent is making ops less annoying!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...
This Star Trek podcast is the funniest and most entertaining podcast I know. If you like Star Trek and frequent “juvenile” humor, check it out. They’re just starting their SECOND walk of EVERY episode in the ENTIRE franchise. I’ve been listening to this podcast for 10 years now.
Sure, AWS DevOps Agent just went GA, but we added a bunch of features at the same time, including Custom Skills, Learned Skills, Code Indexing - just to name a few! This video shows the new flexible On-Demand SRE Tasks in action.
More in the blog! aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/ann...
Great UX for humans is still super important even in the age of frontier agents! This week, AWS DevOps Agent’s investigation view just got a nice “glow-up”, so check it out!
A bunch of features launched a couple weeks ago along with going GA so take a tour here: aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/ann...
Bumper bowling is a better sport for agents than regular bowling: blog.dyanacek.com/2026/05/31/a... (It's a metaphor for guardrails and feedback!)
📚📚📚 New blog and post: "Dune as an operational model", aka #DuneOps. 📚📚📚
The best fighters in the Dune universe are born from the harshest environments. That philosophy has fun parallels to #DevOps, #SRE, #PlatformEngineering, and Frontline #Ops.
blog.dyanacek.com/2026/05/10/d...
DuneOps Part 2: Crossing bloodlines. AI changes the math on the strengths and weaknesses of each operational model, from #DevOps, #SRE, #PlatformEngineering, by making it easier to borrow the strengths of each.
blog.dyanacek.com/2026/05/16/d...
In developer tooling, if a "rough edge" makes a tool hard to use, but a "sharp edge" makes a tool easy to accidentally misuse, then what kind of edge should a tool have?