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.
From Observability to Actionability: Why Metrics Alone Aren’t Enough
Observability has plateaued. The next step is actionable observability—using AI, automation, and SLOs to turn telemetry into reliable outcomes ...
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 ...
The GitOps Plateau – Have We Stopped Innovating?
GitOps adoption is steady but innovation has slowed. AI-native GitOps could be the breakthrough that makes Kubernetes delivery smarter, safer, and scalable ...
GitOps Under Fire: Resilience Lessons from GitProtect’s Mid-Year 2025 Incident Report
GitOps may power cloud-native delivery, but rising outages and breaches across GitHub, GitLab, Jira, and Azure DevOps expose just how fragile today’s pipelines really are ...
Kubernetes Has Become Boring — That’s a Good Thing
Nearly 10 years on, Kubernetes has become the invisible backbone of cloud-native infrastructure—stable, trusted and still quietly evolving ...
Service Mesh at a Crossroads: Istio’s Graduation and the Road Ahead
It wasn’t that long ago that service mesh was the shiny new toy of the cloud-native stack. For many platform teams, Istio, Linkerd, Consul Connect, or Kuma promised to solve some of ...
Futurum Signal is Live: Real-Time Market Intelligence for the Cloud-Native Era
The cloud-native world doesn’t stand still. Kubernetes releases every quarter, new distributions popping up like mushrooms, service meshes evolving faster than you can deploy them, and now agentic AI reshaping how we ...
Cloud Native’s Two‑Headed Monster
Kubernetes brought order to containers. Observability brought clarity to complexity. Now, they’re co-leading the cloud-native movement—and redefining the CNCF ecosystem ...
Are We Still Arguing Over Cloud Native Being Enterprise or SME?
Still arguing whether cloud native is for enterprises or startups? Stop. From AI solo founders to Fortune 500s, the only thing that matters is speed, resilience and solving real problems — cloud ...
Cloud Native Now: One for the Road
Cloud native is no longer a trend — it’s the fabric weaving together edge, hybrid, and public cloud into the backbone of today’s platforms ...
