By Ricardo Amaro
December 17, 2025

If 2023 was the year of "Chat" and 2024 was the year of "Hype," 2025 will be remembered as the year of Commoditization.

For the past twelve months, we've been warning about the dangers of "renting your brain" to Silicon Valley. We started this year fearing that the gap between proprietary models (like GPT-4) and open weights would widen into an unbridgeable chasm. We feared that European SMEs would be forever shackled to  API endpoints, bleeding data and IP in exchange for intelligence.

But... fortunately we were wrong.

As we close out 2025, the "intelligence...

In the realm of software development, AI Ops propels the integration of AI with the DevOps CI/CD pipelines. Evolving software development practices are put in place to improve the levels of effectiveness, quality, and safety throughout the software delivery life cycle. This synergy brings into existence the automation and optimization of processes that traditionally relied on manual or rule-based interfaces, and thereby fewer errors come into play, allowing for expedited software releases.

Context 

In our industry, CI/CD pipelines have come to be a very important concept for modern software...

I'm absolutely thrilled to finally share the highlights of my Ph.D thesis journey: Achieving Successful DevOps Adoption in IT Organizations. It has been a fascinating deep dive into DevOps’ adoption, untamed ocean.

For years, I've been passionate about this DevOps problem. From arguing about siloed teams to geeking out at open-source meetups, I've seen firsthand the virtues – and the difficulties – of trying to bring Dev and Ops together. And let's be honest, while everyone and their cousins seem to be talking about DevOps benefits like swifter releases and more satisfied customers, the reality...

Some thoughts about my contribution to the Future IT Leadership Course at Técnico+.

In today's digital landscape, organizations find themselves under pressure to deliver high-quality software as quickly or as blatantly as possible. The silos between the traditional development and operations worlds are no longer tenable, and DevOps itself is a key practice for any sensible organization.  As future leaders, it is essential to understand this and sustain DevOps as a way to drive success and ensure competitive advantage.

What is DevOps and Why Does it Matter?

Back to basics: DevOps is much more...

At Drupalcon Amsterdam 2019 I moderated a very interesting panel about Local Drupal Development tools.

The invited panelists were: Randy Fay from Drud (DDEV), Mattias Michaux from Dropsolid (Launchpad), Michael Schmid from Amazee (pygmy), Engin Yilmaz from FFW (Docksal), Mark Casias from Mediacurrent (Lando) and Alejandro Moreno-Lopez from Acquia (Acquia DS).

It seems everyone has their own favorite local development tool these days. From Lando to DDEV, along with Launchpad, Docksal, pygmy and Acquia DS to custom solutions, developers have strong opinions of which tools rank...