By Ricardo Amaro
February 20, 2026

Why $20 IoT Devices Are About to Get Dangerously Smart

Ever tried cramming a 1-gigabyte AI runtime onto a $20 security camera? It is a spectacular way to instantly crash your hardware and kill your deployment timeline. For years, hardware engineers and data scientists have been trapped in a deeply frustrating compromise: either build "dumb" edge devices that rely on slow, expensive cloud APIs, or force heavily bloated software onto critically constrained hardware.

The enterprise AI market is expanding at a staggering 30% compound annual growth rate, rapidly...

By Ricardo Amaro
February 6, 2025

Remember the "AI Wars" of 2023? The endless Twitter debates about whether open-source models would "kill" OpenAI, or if proprietary giants would leave everyone else in the digital dust?

I have news for you: The war is over. And looking around the landscape in February 2026, it’s clear that nobody won—because we were fighting over the wrong thing.

The industry hasn't collapsed into a monopoly, nor has it democratized into a utopia. Instead, it has bifurcated. We have entered an era of rigorous industrial consolidation where "Intelligence" has split into two...

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.

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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...