2026-02-02, 12:50–12:55, D.Aud
After 30 years in this field and too many years away from actual code, I came back. What I found frustrated me enough to start building. AI gave me the velocity, but the direction came from decades of seeing the same patterns return, dressed in new syntax.
I built most of these tools around Kubernetes. Not because I love it, but because I was already frustrated from working with it. After five years of managing a DevOps consultancy, I understood something: you can't convince everyone who doesn't need it not to use it. It's a standard now. It's everywhere. So I stopped fighting.
But going deep into its ecosystem, really learning it, something clicked. I remembered there was something else out there. Something that could do some of these things more elegantly.
Eleven tools in seven months. Still a work in progress. Our modern stack has real engineering in it. But somewhere along the way, we fragmented what used to be unified. We solved problems that were already solved, just in places we weren't looking.
Yair Etziony is an Engineering Manager at AMBOSS with over 30 years of experience in systems administration, DevOps, and cloud technologies. He holds a BA in modern history and philosophy, organizes the Berlin DevOps meetup, and has spoken at DevOpsCon and DevOps Days Berlin. His career spans from VAX/VMS systems in the 1990s to modern cloud infrastructure, providing a unique historical perspective on technology evolution.