Podcasts are popular ways for DevOps Leaders and Practitioners to keep current. This award recognizes the most educational, informative and inspirational DevOps video or audio podcast series – those with the most engaging and highest-quality content that keeps listeners coming back for more.

“BMC’s mainframe podcast, The Modern Mainframe is one of the leading podcasts helping to keep the mainframe relevant. With news and analysis of DevOps topics across the mainframe it has something for everyone. Keep it up!”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

BMC’s mainframe podcast, The Modern Mainframe features discussions with executives, practitioners, DevOps evangelists, and industry analysts, presenting insightful news and analysis of DevOps topics across the mainframe, including application development, operations, database DevOps, and more.

Each year sees a number of well-crafted DevOps-related books. This category recognizes the most popular and best read of the year.

“Marc Hornbeek’s book, Continuous Testing, Quality, Security and Feedback: Essential strategies and secure practices for DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE transformations shows readers the strategies fortransformation successinto DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE methodologies.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

“In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, the integration of continuous testing, quality, security, and feedback has become pivotal for organizations aiming to achieve successful digital transformations. Continuous Testing, Quality, Security, and Feedback is a comprehensive guide that delves into the core strategies necessary for embedding these practices into the heart of DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE methodologies. The book is a catalyst for transformation.”

Every community has those who standout as leaders in their field who spread the DevOps gospel everyday. This award recognizes the individual whose peers in the DevOps community recognize for outstanding leadership, knowledge and communication

“Hailing from the country of Georgia, Giorgi has played major roles in Development and Operations. He isvery active in the Georgian community where he plays role of AWS Community Leader in Tbilisi, Ambassador for CD foundation, CNCF Kubestronaut, CNCF chapter lead, IEEE Senior Member and Ambassador for Institute of DevOps and helps to grow DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering awareness in that community.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Giorgi has been in IT field a decade, during this period he has been exposed to majority fields of Development and Operation, beside working hour Giorgi is very actively participating in community he plays role of AWS Community Leader in Tbilisi also Ambassador for CD foundation, CNCF Kubestronaut, CNCF chapter lead, IEEE Senior Member and Ambassador for Institute of DevOps also he conducts meetups to grow DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering awareness in Georgian community.

Events and conferences are an important part of IT life. This category includes both in-person and virtual events. Which DevOps event stands out from the others and delivers the best content, speakers and attendee experience?

“Grafana Labs’ GrafanaCON 2024 annual conference held in Amsterdam focused on the open source world of Observability. Of particular note were the ive demos, latest OSS developments and the community winners of the annual Golden Grot Awards.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

GrafanaCON 2024 was an annual conference hosted by Grafana Labs, focused on all things Grafana and its extended open source ecosystem. The event took place in Amsterdam on April 9-10, marking the first in-person conference in five years. The conference was sold out and featured a variety of activities, including technical talks, live demos, hands-on sessions, and user success stories.

Open source software is an important part of every organization’s set of development assets promoting innovation, velocity, quality and efficiency. This award recognizes the open source project that delivers the greatest value through a community of people who work on and with the open source technology and support each other.

“The Jenkins open source project represents one of the greatest open source projects of all time, and another great project from the Linux Foundation. It is an industry standard now boasting over 11 million Jenkins developers around the world and estimated to hold 40% market share. Congrats to The Butler!”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

Jenkins is a leading open-source automation server backed by a large community focused on continuous integration, delivery, and software delivery practices. With an extensible, plugin-based architecture, it supports over 1,900 plugins to integrate with various build, test, and deployment tools. Datanyze estimates Jenkins holds 40% of the CI/CD market. With around 27M developers globally, about 11M are estimated to use Jenkins for CI.

DevOps.com publishes multiple new articles every day. This award recognizes the best article from this year. Let us know so we can recognize the author.

“In this article, Alexander Simonov lays out how DevOps specialists can remain in-demand and easily adapt to the changes and challenges presented by AI. If you adapt, no AI can replace you!”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

What does AI do well, where does it fall short in DevOps, and should DevOps professionals fear it and start re-skilling today.

An organization’s leadership plays a critical role in shepherding its team through innovation and change.This award recognizes a strong DevOps leader who guides their team through the challenges of developing and implementing DevOps strategies, policies, culture and practices to improve software development and delivery.

“Culture change is the most challenging aspect of any transformation, but especially in large, complex organizatons. TD Bank’s Sheree Britt shows what a leader can accomplish when you lean into DevOps practices and principles and gets the organization excited by early wins and the long-term potential.”
Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group Founder & CEO

“Culture change can be challenging in the best of circumstances but with entrenched legacy environments in large, complex organizations, it can seem overwhelming. This hasn’t stopped Sheree. Sheree Britt is a passionate advocate for enterprise DevOps modernization and is a recognized leader of IT transformation, both internally and externally. She has leaned in to DevOps practices and principles and has the organization excited about the early wins and the extraordinary long-term potential.”