Category: unboxing808
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Beyond Hardened Images: Edera’s Approach to Production Security
At Open Source Summit in Minneapolis, I was walking the show floor when I came across the Edera booth and stopped to learn more. The company is focused on securing workloads once they reach production by isolating them inside microVMs. The approach piqued my interest, so I sat down with Chief Marketing Officer Kaylin Trychon…
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When Hardware Matters Again: Jonathan Bryce on AI Infrastructure
At Open Source Summit in Minneapolis, I caught up with Jonathan Bryce, executive director of Cloud Infrastructure and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) at the Linux Foundation. I first interviewed Jonathan 17 years ago, shortly after Rackspace acquired his early cloud company, Mosso. Since then, he helped establish OpenStack and led the Open Infrastructure…
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Exodos Labs: The SBOM is where security starts, not where it ends
At the Open Source Summit in Minneapolis, I sat down with Harry Zorn, co-founder of Exodos Labs, to talk about the growing SBOM deluge in software supply chain security and how Exodos is trying to address it. Spoiler alert: Instead of treating the SBOM as the end of the process, Exodos treats it as the…
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Open Source, AI and the Bear — Where We’re Winning (and Where We’re Not)
This year, the Linux Foundation’s North American open-source summit was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The three-day event kicked off with a keynote from the Foundation’s executive director Jim Zemlin entitled, “Sometimes You Eat the Bear and Sometimes the Bear Eats You.”* In Jim’s 40-minute talk he went through where open source in AI is dominating,…
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ops0 in the Age of AI: From Open Source Visibility to Infrastructure Governance
At DevOpsDays 2026 in Austin, I sat down with Suresh Paulchalmy, CEO and co-founder of ops0, to discuss a growing challenge with AI agents: On one hand they increase speed and agility by allowing individuals to make infrastructure changes directly— On the other, they introduce significant risk. Suresh gave one cautionary example: someone working with…
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The Gap Your Observability Tools Aren’t Watching
Based on an interview with Steve Semelsberger (CEO and co-founder) and Peco Karayanev (CTO and co-founder), recorded live at DevOpsDays Austin, May 6, 2026. Last year at DevOpsDays Austin 2025, I sat down with Peco Karayanev. He’d just started building the Autoptic platform, and the company along with it. The DevOps change resilience platform was…
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Mendral Built on Claude. Now Its Team Is Joining Anthropic
Yesterday, Sam Alba and Andrea Luzzardi announced that the Mendral team is joining Anthropic. They are winding down their hosted AI DevOps engineer, transitioning customers, and heading to work on Claude Platform. The speed is what gets me. If memory serves, Mendral was first mentioned publicly in January of this year and emerged from Y…
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Shadow IT at Agent Scale — Obot’s on It.
The following is based on my recent conversation with Obot co-founder and CEO Sheng Liang. The full interview is embedded below. Eighteen months ago, when I sat down with Obot co-founder and CEO Sheng Liang, AI agents were generating a lot of buzz but were limited in their capability. Sheng, a veteran of the Kubernetes…
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Building the Agentic Enterprise: What WSO2con Got Right, and What’s Still Missing
The week before last I attended two very different conferences: the Open Source Summit in Minneapolis and WSO2con back here in Austin. A study in contrast: t-shirts and developer-heavy crowds at the first, button-downs and CTO/CIO types at the second. What they did have in common however was Open source (and not surprisingly a focus…
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Who Cares What You Call an Agent: John Willis on Authority, Scope, and Governance
John Willis is one of the original authors of the DevOps Handbook and has spent decades on the operations side of technology. So when generative AI came along, his first thought, not surprisingly, was: what does this mean for operations, and what role could he play in helping people understand AI’s broader impact? What he…