AI-driven development and DevOps - with Jeffrey Palermo

About this episode

Dan Clarke and Jeffrey Palermo discuss the impact of AI on software development and the necessity of mature DevOps processes.

In this episode, I was joined by Jeffrey Palermo to chat about AI-driven development and DevOps. We discussed how AI is changing the way we write software, and the importance of having mature DevOps processes in place (eg. good tests, CI pipelines, and specs) before we can properly start leveraging AI to write features in a reliable and consistent way. Jeffrey Palermo is the host of the Azure & DevOps podcast, Founder and Chief Architect of Clear Measure, a long-time Microsoft MVP, tech s...

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Host: Dan Clarke

Guest: Jeffrey Palermo

Topics covered

• AI-driven development
• DevOps
• software engineering
• CI pipelines
• testing

Keywords

• AI
• DevOps
• software development
• CI pipelines
• testing
• Azure
• Clear Measure

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Clear Measure, Microsoft, Azure & DevOps podcast

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