This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.

In this Ship It Conversations episode, I talk with Ned Bellavance of Ned in the Cloud about DevOps beyond the buzzwords, platform engineering, infrastructure as code, AI, and why fundamentals still matter even as the tools change.

Ned is the founder of Ned in the Cloud and host of the Day 2 DevOps podcast, with more than 20 years in IT across systems administration, cloud, architecture, automation, and technical education.

We start with a problem a lot of teams run into: adopting the ceremonies of DevOps without actually adopting the principles. Standups, sprints, pipelines, and tooling can make an organization look mature, but the real goal is better communication, faster feedback loops, and delivery tied to actual out ...