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Design Patterns Are Dead. Long Live Design Patterns.

Design patterns were created for human comprehension, not machines, serving as a shared vocabulary to communicate complex ideas quickly, manage working memory, and standardize solutions. Even in the era of AI-generated code, design patterns are crucial for containing the limitations of AI models and.. read more  

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AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.

GitHub began usage-based Copilot billing, and some developers say they used up the AI credits GitHub grants for a month in under 24 hours. Developers burn credits through "premium requests". GitHub counts prompts to advanced models, agent tasks, edits, and some Copilot features against the allowance.. read more  

AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.
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I Did 11 Technical Interviews in 60 Days. Here Is the Pattern Nobody Tells You.

The key insight from the article is that at mid-to-senior backend levels, coding rounds matter least while judgment, communication, structure, and ability to defend decisions are critical. Focus on rehearsing key design, incident, and behavioral answer structures to succeed, not just LeetCode... read more  

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The Case for VM and Container Consolidation in 2026

With KubeVirt, enterprise platform teams can run VMs and containers on Kubernetes, so separate VM and container platforms remain a choice teams keep through habit... read more  

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Buzzing Beyond Clouds: The Illustrated Children's Guide to Cilium

"Buzzing Beyond Clouds"continues the eBPF adventure with Obee as a Jedi bee, showcasing how Cilium powers networking, cluster mesh, observability, security, and service mesh in the Kubulous galaxy. Each chapter parallels Cilium's real-world functionalities, making complex concepts accessible to all .. read more  

Buzzing Beyond Clouds: The Illustrated Children's Guide to Cilium
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Containers on fire: from container escapes to supply chain attacks

Kaspersky researchers explain how attackers use a compromised container to take over aKubernetescluster or host, with misconfigured APIs and permissions driving most escapes... read more  

Containers on fire: from container escapes to supply chain attacks
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Runtime Observability and Enforcement for Opaque AI Agents with eBPF: Beyond Sandboxes and Approvals

Platform teams should verify side effects at the OS layer, separate from tool approvals and sandbox rules, because engineers cannot treat AI agent harnesses as security boundaries... read more  

Runtime Observability and Enforcement for Opaque AI Agents with eBPF: Beyond Sandboxes and Approvals
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Fixing Ghost Drops: How eBPF Rescued IPv6 Telemetry

In this walkthrough, you use eBPF to patch malformed flow-export packets before the host network stack drops them... read more  

Fixing Ghost Drops: How eBPF Rescued IPv6 Telemetry
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Qwen3.7-Plus: Multimodal Agent Intelligence

Qwen3.7-Plus is a powerful multimodal agent that seamlessly blends GUI and CLI interactions, excelling in coding, tool use, and productivity workflows. It generalizes across diverse agent frameworks, delivering competitive text performance and strong reasoning abilities across challenging STEM bench.. read more  

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Building a Continuous Conversational Insights Pipeline in BigQuery

This deep dive reveals a cutting-edge conversational analytics pipeline using Google Cloud and BigQuery to tackle multi-departmental data segmentation challenges with a hybrid semantic filtering approach. By pre-segmenting data and running targeted models, the pipeline uncovers granular insights oft.. read more  

DevOpsDayLA is Southern California's premier conference focused on the human side of technology delivery. For 15 years, we've brought together SoCal practitioners who understand that great software isn't just about tools, it's about people working together effectively.

The 2026 Lens: DevOps in an AI World: You're working in a world where AI is everywhere, embedded in your tools, requested by your management, and reshaping how teams deliver software. Whether you're embracing these changes or navigating the challenges they create, your experience matters.

We're looking for stories about how you and your organizations are adapting your mindsets, processes, and team dynamics in this rapidly evolving landscape. How did your team integrate AI into existing workflows? What changed about collaboration when AI entered the picture? Where do humans remain critical in automated processes? How do you build the next generation of engineers when entry-level work is automated? What are the real implementation challenges you're facing in Southern California's entertainment, gaming, aerospace, retail, healthcare, and manufacturing companies?

What makes DevOpsDayLA different: We focus on culture, collaboration, and cross-industry implementation stories rather than pure technical deep-dives. We're all about the people and processes that make technology successful in an AI world, not the technology itself.

We especially welcome new speakers, under-represented voices, and fresh perspectives from across SoCal's diverse tech landscape.

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To attend DevOps Day LA purchase a  SCALE ticket via the SCALE website. Your ticket will provide access to both events.

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DevOpsDayLA sponsors have the opportunity to offer job opportunities, demonstrations of the latest tools, and world-class service offerings to facilitate organizations’ DevOps journey. The conference is presented with the support of the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE). It provides a relaxed, casual, and diverse environment where experienced professionals, evangelists, agile practitioners, developers, job seekers, business executives, educators, students, and curiosity seekers can connect and attend talks on current topics.

For additional information, please contact us at los-angeles@devopsdays.org.

Speak at DevOpsDay LA

DevOpsDay LA sessions are selected through our calling for presentations for our 2026 event. We have posted a list of desired topics and best practices for submissions.

Friday, March 6, 2026 - 10:00 to 17:00