First impressions on IDI2026
After a 7 year break, I returned to IDI - Incontro DevOps Italia and it was a blast. Here are my first impressions: AI dominated conversations. It is clear that team or organization-level guidance is important and software development and operational best practices like small PRs, and low MTTR are crucial. Sprints could/should be made shorter (1w or less). Question is: how to keep a healthy ceremony-to-work ratio with shorter sprints? Spec-driven development helps capture the details of the work being done, which is also useful for later rework/inspection but might also be important for compliance reasons 🤔 Finally someone using Backstage (to build self-service ops). List of sessions I attended: Leveraging the edge for observability GitOps, Observability e AI: come chiudere il ciclo dell’AIOps Don’t fear the bot: mastering AI tools before they master you (most fun and engaging) Scaling DevOps Without Scaling Ops: Our Platform Engineering Journey sshlogin: securely authentic...