Alan Shimel is founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, a Futurum company, and a member of Futurum's executive leadership team. A technology entrepreneur, media executive and industry commentator, Shimel has spent more than three decades building businesses, communities and media platforms serving enterprise technology professionals, including co-founding StillSecure, a network security company, and the DevOps Institute, a DevOps certification and training body. At Techstrong, he leads a portfolio of media brands including DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Techstrong AI, Techstrong IT, Digital CxO, Platform Engineering, Techstrong Semi and Techstrong TV, along with a growing portfolio of events, educational programs and digital communities. With more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Shimel is a familiar voice in the space and was an early advocate of the DevOps movement, helping bring DevOps practices into mainstream enterprise technology. His work today spans cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud-native technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and digital transformation, and he hosts popular programs including Techstrong Gang, Shimmy Says and Still Cyber, After All These Years. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics from St. John's University and a Juris Doctor from New York Law School.
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 ...
From Cloud First to Cloud Fit: Rethinking Where Workloads Belong
Induprakas “Indu” Keri explores why organizations are increasingly shifting from a cloud-first mindset to a cloud-fit strategy as containerized applications mature. Indu’s take is simple: the public cloud is fantastic when you’re ...
Best of 2025: Riding the Wave: A Mid-Year Look at CNCF Project Momentum
At this point, it’s almost cliché to say Kubernetes is king in the cloud native world. But sometimes clichés exist for a reason — and the data doesn’t lie. The latest mid-year ...
Best of 2025: Apple Buys Styra Brains, OPA Remains Open
In what may be the most Apple-esque move in recent memory—quiet, strategic, and totally on-brand—the tech giant has apparently executed an “acquihire without the acquisition” by scooping up the co-founders and core ...
