Attendees engaged in discussions at DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025 conference

Key Takeaways from DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025: Community, AI, and Platform Engineering

(Originally posted on our company blog Silverfin Engineering) After attending DevOpsDays Amsterdam for what must be the seventh or eighth time, I can confidently say it remains one of my favorite conferences in the industry. The event’s unique combination of workshops, single-track talks, and Open Spaces consistently delivers valuable insights that I apply throughout the year. The balance between technical skills and interpersonal capabilities (often the more challenging of the two) makes this conference particularly valuable. ...

June 23, 2025 · 6 min
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Rewriting My Workflow: From AI Skeptic to Terminal Convert

The Problem with Traditional Development Workflows Our traditional SDLC doesn’t make a lot of sense anymore now, does it? Whether you’ve read Accelerate and are a “high performing team” doing trunk-based development, or still stuck in GitLab flow or GitHub flow, once you’ve drunk the agentic Kool-Aid, it becomes apparent these will no longer cut it. This is due to a couple of reasons. For starters, since we’re now “orchestrating”, should reviewing be shifted left earlier in the process? And what about actual PRs, when you’re already reviewing code in real-time with AI (like pair programming), does the traditional post-hoc review still add the same value? ...

June 22, 2025 · 6 min