GenAI in DevOps: Transforming Developer Culture

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DEVOPS

Jan 20, 2024

About Speaker

Namrata Dixit

Head of Cloud, DevOps and IT Transformation, Mercedes Benz Research and Development India

Namrata Dixit, an accomplished Cloud COE Leader with over 18 years of experience in designing cutting-edge solutions across AWS and Azure platforms. As an Azure-certified Architect, they excel in cloud architecture, data lakes, and Big Data analytics, utilizing tools like HDInsight and Power BI. With a strong background in programming languages and Agile methodologies, they drive success in projects while also delving into emerging technologies like AI, ML, and Microservices. Their leadership prowess and commitment to innovation make them a valuable asset in driving digital transformation.

About Host

Sathya Narayanan Nagarajan

Co-founder and CTO, Amnic

Sathya is an experienced technologist with over two decades in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Electric Vehicles (EV), and Distributed Systems. As the Co-founder and CTO of Amnic, he drives the development of a cloud Intelligence Platform, emphasizing efficiency, cost reduction, and reliability. Sathya's leadership spans roles at Ola Electric Mobility, Ola Cabs, Yahoo and many internet companies. With 11 patents in AI, EV, and Distributed Systems, he is committed to knowledge sharing and guiding industry thought leaders.

Summary of Podcast

In the "GenAI in DevOps: Transforming Developer Culture", Namrata who leads the Cloud practice at Mercedes-Benz, shares his professional journey and the current focus on enhancing developer productivity and happiness in the context of DevOps and cloud technologies. The speaker discusses the importance of setting up a self-service portal for developers with a golden path or framework to ensure best practices and reduce repetitive tasks. There are conflicting views on measuring developer productivity, with some arguing against it and others suggesting a balanced approach using metrics and qualitative feedback. The emergence of Generative AI (GenAI) in the DevOps space is transforming the industry by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing existing tools, such as GitHub Copilot for code suggestion and generation, user testing and bug fixing, and root cause analysis through centralized monitoring and logging tools. GenAI also improves software development by providing secure coding, reduced development cycles, and increased customer satisfaction through tools like Amazon CodeGuru, Snyk, and many more tolls. Additionally, GenAI is making it easier to migrate from one software stack to another and offering Cloud Financial Management (FinOps) features. Organizations are encouraged to gradually adopt GenAI and identify specific use cases in development, pipeline, testing, secure coding, CD, and monitoring to increase productivity.

About Amnic

Amnic is a cloud cost observability platform, helping businesses measure and rightsize their cloud costs. Amnic helps businesses visualize, analyze and optimize their cloud spends, in turn building a lean cloud infrastructure. Amnic offers out of the box solutions that help breakdown cloud bills and provide greater visibility and understanding into cloud costs along with recommendations to lower spends, alerts and anomaly detection.

Amnic delivers a wide range of features including K8s visibility, cost analyzer, alerts and custom reporting, budgeting, forecasting and smart tagging. DevOps and SRE teams rely on Amnic to deliver a simplified view into their cloud costs, allowing them to maintain governance and build a culture of cost optimization. Setup in 5-minutes and get 30-days of free trial.

Visit www.amnic.com to get started.

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