Spec Driven Development - Issue 5
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Hey Everyone👋
Hope your week’s going awesome!
In this issue of VibeOps, we've got some amazing AI-for-DevOps news for you from Amazon’s new Kiro IDE, to Google’s $2.4B deal for the Minds Behind Windsurf, plus exciting updates from the Stakpak team.
You’ll also find practical learning resources, upcoming events, and… a chance to win $100,000
So grab your coffee and let’s see what the AI agents are up to this week.
Cursor and Windsurf just got a serious competitor.
Amazon just announced Kiro IDE. Is it another coding agent? I think we will need to wait to find out
🔗 kiro.dev
$2.4B for the Minds Behind Windsurf
It has been a dramatic week in the tech industry First, OpenAI wanted to acquire Windsurf, but then Google hired Windsurf’s leadership and R&D team in a $2.4 billion deal.
Experts say this could help Google compete more with GitHub Copilot and AWS CodeWhisperer.
And now Windsurf has been acquired by Cognition (Learn More)
Upcoming Events
Stakpak Ship It
Missed our last Stakpak Ship It? You missed out on us:
Deploying an ECS cluster with networking, audit logs, a workload, Memory, and CPU auto-scaling using Terraform in just an hour and a half🤯
But don’t worry, our next Stakpak Ship It session is around the corner
🗓️ Every Wednesday at 10:00 GMT-7 on Discord Live.
P.S.: Don’t forget your coffee
Code with Kiro Hackathon
Learning Resources
Every week, we come across interesting blogs, papers, and tutorials that help us level up as a DevOps team. Here are some of the coolest ones we found this week. We hope they inspire you, too.
What is Spec Driven Development?
Ever since Amazon released Kiro IDE, developers haven’t stopped talking about spec-driven development. The focus is moving from writing code to writing “intent” which lets the AI turn structured specs into working software. In this video, Patrick Debois, the father of DevOps, explains how this new approach is redefining developer roles and why spec-centric workflows are at the core of AI-native development.
Running AI MCP Tools on Kubernetes with kagent
Bret and Nirmal explore AI agents in Kubernetes with Eitan Yarmush, Senior Architect at Solo.io. Eitan explains how AI agents work through three simple components (system prompts, LLMs, and tools), and demonstrates the kagent project, which provides a Kubernetes-native way to deploy and manage AI workflows.
How AI & DevOps Are About to Change the Way We Create Products?
In this talk, Marko Klemetti explains how DevOps and Continuous Deployment help teams build faster and safer software, especially when using AI tools in development.
Can AI Fix DevSecOps?
In this research paper, the researchers show us how AI and machine learning can help automate security tasks in DevOps.
They review 99 studies, and cover 12 key security tasks, and talk about the challenges we are facing.
They also talk about how to improve security without slowing down software delivery.
Bonus
The Stakpak CLI DevOps Agent is open-source and runs right in your terminal. Built for the gritty parts of software development, it’s the only coding agent you can trust in production ops. They’re launching on Product Hunt soon
🔗 Visit their Notify Me page to stay updated!
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