Episode notes
This is a Ship It Weekly interview episode. The weekly news recaps are still weekly. These interviews drop in between when I find someone worth talking to and the convo feels useful.
In this episode I’m joined by Mazharul “Maz” Islam (DevOps with Maz). Maz is a UK-based DevOps Engineer who shares practical, real-world DevOps content on YouTube and LinkedIn. We talk about the stuff that actually matters when you’re building systems, running infrastructure, owning reliability, and living in on-call.
We hit three big things: the importance of understanding the WHY behind DevOps (not just the tools), how to upskill and keep up with the industry without burning out, and what the agentic AI era might look like for DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering teams. We also touch on MCPs and AI agents, and what “leveling up” looks ...
Keywords
platform engineeringBrian TellerSRE Ship it weeklyShip It InterviewsInterviewSite Reliability Engineeringcloud engineeringCI/CDreliabilityon-call,incident responseobservabilityautomationupskillingDevOps careerDevOps learningagentic AIAI agentsMCPengineering productivityagility