As Editor-in-chief of DevOps.com and Container Journal, Alan Shimel is attuned to the world of technology. Alan has founded and helped several technology ventures, including StillSecure, where he guided the company in bringing innovative and effective networking and security solutions to the marketplace. Shimel is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at industry and government conferences and events. In addition to his writing on DevOps.com and Network World, his commentary about the state of technology is followed closely by many industry insiders via his blog and podcast, "Ashimmy, After All These Years" (www.ashimmy.com). Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field, and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality.
The AI Native Stack Already Exists. We’ve Been Calling It Cloud Native
Enterprise AI feels like a clean break from everything before it. Look closely at what makes it run in production, and you find fifteen years of cloud native engineering that solved these ...
How Cloud Native Became the AI Native Stack
For the last fifteen years, the cloud native community has been busy doing what it does best: solving hard operational problems, usually before the rest of the industry fully understands why those ...
Securing the Cloud-Native Edge
The job of “protecting the data” in a cloud-native environment used to mean snapshots and offsite copies of stateful workloads. That definition is breaking down quickly. Once an organization starts running RAG ...
Kubernetes Was the Easy Part
Kubernetes was hard. Nobody who lived through the early container years should pretend otherwise. The industry had to learn a new operating model, a new control plane, a new vocabulary and a ...
Cloud Native Is Becoming AI Native
Open Source Summit North America has always been a good place to see where infrastructure is going before the market fully catches up. This year, the signal is not exactly subtle. The ...
The “Golden Ticket” for Cloud-Native Modernization
For years, the case for ripping out a legacy hypervisor was mostly philosophical — the migration cost almost always outweighed the upside. Market consolidation and aggressive licensing changes have flipped that math ...
Cloud-Native Architecture’s Next Test: Holding Up Under Agentic AI
Enterprises are juggling three migrations at once: lifting workloads off legacy virtualization stacks, modernizing what’s already running on Kubernetes, and figuring out where agentic AI fits inside both. Each of those shifts ...
Wasm at 10, What Lies Ahead
Celebrating 10 years of WebAssembly—Wasm moves beyond browsers to power edge computing and AI, silently redefining where computation happens ...
Predict 2026: AI is Forcing Cloud Native to Grow Up
Join us at Predict 2026 to explore how AI is challenging cloud native platforms, driving operational maturity, and reshaping the tech landscape ...
Autonomous Patching for Cloud-Native Workloads
The cloud-native stack didn’t make security go away—it just spread it across more layers, more repos, more images, and more “who owns this?” moments. Eilon Elhadad, co-founder and CTO of Echo, talks ...
