# DevOps — Sylvain Kalache

URL: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/topics/devops

My writing, talks, podcasts, and projects about DevOps.

## Selected work

- [AI Made Developers 25% More Productive. It Also Tripled Our Incident Rate.](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ai-productivity-and-incident-rates-devopsdays-denver-2026.md) (2026-09-22; DevOpsDays Denver): Speaking at the 10th annual DevOpsDays Rockies about how AI-assisted coding boosts developer productivity while increasing incident rates — and what reliability teams need to do about it.
- [How AI is Fueling the Developer Renaissance](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/how-ai-is-fueling-the-developer-renaissance.md) (2025-06-05; Rootly AI Labs): Panel at the AWS GenAI Loft with leaders from a16z, AWS, Dagger, Braintrust, Baseten, and Arize AI on how AI is transforming developer workflows.
- [Sean Goedecke — Staff Software Engineer at GitHub](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/sean-goedecke-staff-software-engineer-at-github.md) (2025-02-18; Humans of Reliability): Reliability at GitHub scale — incident management, deployment practices, and engineering culture.
- [DevOps Foundations Professional Certificate](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/devops-foundations-professional-certificate.md) (2023-01-01; edX): edX Professional Certificate program covering DevOps fundamentals — CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and culture.
- [Shift-Left Testing Applied to Kubernetes](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/shift-left-testing-applied-to-kubernetes.md) (2022-07-12; The New Stack): Moving Kubernetes configuration validation and testing earlier in the development cycle to catch issues before they reach production.
- [With AI Now a Commodity, the Speed of Iteration Is the Next Challenge](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/with-ai-now-a-commodity-the-speed-of-iteration-is-the-next-challenge.md) (2021-06-08; The New Stack): AI models are becoming commoditized. The competitive advantage now lies in how fast teams can iterate on data, features, and deployment pipelines.
- [What Is MLOps?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/what-is-mlops.md) (2021-03-19; The New Stack): A primer on MLOps — the practices, tools, and culture for managing machine learning models in production at scale.
- [The Future of Code Quality, Security, and Agility Lies in Machine Learning](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/the-future-of-code-quality-security-and-agility-lies-in-machine-learning.md) (2019-02-01; CIO): How machine learning is transforming code quality assurance, security scanning, and agile development workflows.
- [5 Reasons DevOps Initiatives Fail](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/5-reasons-devops-initiatives-fail.md) (2018-12-01; CIO): Common pitfalls that cause DevOps transformations to stall — from cultural resistance to tooling fragmentation.
- [Holberton School Scales Training to Meet DevOps Demand](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/holberton-school-scales-training-to-meet-devops-demand.md) (2018-05-01; The New Stack): Interview with The New Stack on how Holberton School is scaling its training programs to meet growing DevOps and software engineering demand.
- [First 5 Commands When I Connect on a Linux Server](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/first-5-commands-when-i-connect-on-a-linux-server.md) (2016-09-26; Linux.com): The essential first five commands every sysadmin runs when SSH-ing into a Linux server — from uptime to disk usage.
- [How DevOps Failed 60K Users](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/how-devops-failed-60k-users.md) (2016-06-23; Linux.com): A postmortem on a DevOps failure that affected 60,000 users — lessons in monitoring gaps, deployment practices, and incident response.
- [DevOps Students Learn the Value of Uptime With 3 a.m. Calls](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/devops-students-learn-the-value-of-uptime-with-3-a-m-calls.md) (2016-06-16; Linux.com): Teaching DevOps through real-world on-call rotations — how students learn the value of monitoring, alerting, and system reliability the hard way.

[All work](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/index.md)