AI’s Impact on DevOps, Unified Observability, and the Cloudflare Outage | TSG Ep. 972

Guests: Barabara Roos, Fred Wilmot, Gina Rosenthal

Hosts: Jon Swartz, Mike Vizard

Category: Techstrong Gang

Date: November 21, 2025

Mike, Jon, Fred Wilmot, Gina Rosenthal and Barbara Roos dive into the future of DevOps and software engineering in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) before assessing the degree to which observability might be unified following a move by Palo Alto Networks to acquire Chronosphere for $3.35 billion.

Then the gang looks into the impact the Cloudflare outage had this week as disruptions to crucial IT services appear to keep on coming.

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