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Mateja Verlic Bruncic,
Facilitator, DevOpsDays Graz 2026
While getting ready to facilitate DevOpsDays Graz 2026, Mateja is also taking a closer look at our lineup and for the next ten Thursdays in a row, she’ll be serving up some very fine program insights in our newsletter.
Her format? Simple and slightly dangerous 😉: she’ll put two speakers side by side and look at where they disagree. Because on most of these topics, we’re all a little bit right and a little bit wrong.
🎙️Two sides: Onboarding juniors, trusting agents - We onboard people slowly. We trust machines fast. Why?
Issue #01 / Thursday, July 2, 2026
What happens when we onboard people slowly, but start trusting machines fast? In the first issue of our newsletter series, Mateja puts two DevOpsDays Graz speakers side by side: Patrick Ratheiser on agentic AI in DevOps, and Katharina Sick on onboarding juniors in real-world production systems. A sharp and playful kickoff to a series built around tension, disagreement, and the questions worth bringing to Graz. Read the full newsletter here.
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🎙️Two sides: Too many rules, or none at all! Hate them, or wish you had any? Which is worse?
Issue #02 / Thursday, July 9, 2026
Who gets to write the rules, and who has to make them work? In the second issue of our newsletter series, Mateja brings two DevOpsDays Graz talks into the same room: Kerim Satirli on Europe’s overlapping compliance rulebooks, and Carol Guarrieri with Nicolas Angelo on the leadership manual nobody gives you. A sharp look at rules, judgment, and the messy space between systems, people, and responsibility. Read the full newsletter here.
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Photo: AI-generated
🎙️Two sides: Go big, or stay home - Build it on your laptop, or big on a platform. Which side are you on?
Issue #03 / Thursday, July 16, 2026
Where should your AI live — close to your code, or on a platform built to scale? In this issue of our newsletter series, Mateja puts three DevOpsDays Graz sessions into the same debate: Sam McGeown on building a fully local AI Terraform assistant, Verena Schiffer, David Monschein and Dino Begicevic on building applications with OpenShift AI, and April Yoho’s keynote on shipping software in the age of agents. A sharp look at control, scale, trust, and the engineering judgment behind every AI decision. Read the full newsletter here.
🎙️Two sides: Guardrails or paved roads - One team locks GitHub down, another builds on top of it. Which way do you lean?
Issue #04 / Thursday, July 23, 2026
Is GitHub infrastructure to control, or a platform to build on? In this issue of our newsletter series, Mateja puts two DevOpsDays Graz sessions side by side: Patrick Koch and Kerim Satirli on managing GitHub with Terraform, and Jonas Weber with Alexis Delaunay on turning GitHub Workflows into a developer experience platform. A sharp look at governance, automation, developer flow, and the fine line between guardrails and friction. Read the full newsletter here.
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🎙️Two sides: Control, or convenience - The hyperscaler vs. your hardware, a European cloud, open models. What would you give up?
Issue #05 / Thursday, July 30, 2026
How much independence can you afford before control turns into maintenance? In this issue of our newsletter series, Mateja puts three DevOpsDays Graz talks into the same room: Dino Begicevic on the pain and purpose of on-premise AI, Lukas Korl on the state of European cloud, and Rainer Stropek on what AI can do without depending on the US. A sharp look at sovereignty, ownership, hidden dependencies, and the invoices teams pay in money, people, or sleep. To read the full article, subscribe to our newsletter :)