Contributing Writer

Venkat Thiruvengadam

Venkat Thiruvengadam is CEO and founder of DuploCloud. Venkat was an early engineer at Microsoft Azure, the first developer and founding member in Azure’s networking team. He wrote significant parts of the Azure compute and network controller stack where he saw Azure grow from a hundred-odd servers to millions of nodes in just a few years. After leaving Microsoft, he realized that such hyperscale automation techniques have not made their way outside of companies like AWS, Microsoft and Google, which led him to form DuploCloud with a goal of bringing the hyperscale automation techniques to Main Street IT.

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The Self-Driving Help Desk: Agentic AI’s Role in the Next DevOps Era

Agentic AI introduces a paradigm shift — one where automation becomes intelligent, collaborative and proactive.

Jun 30, 2025 · 3 min

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MAY18

Blogs

Infrastructure-as-Code Pitfalls in Platform Engineering

In the context of cloud operations, the last decade was ruled by DevOps and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). But what is true DevOps? Is it developers running their own operations? Is it operators learning development skills to automate infrastructure provisioning using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform? Though DevOps is widely understood to incorporate both of these, software […]

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MAY2

Blogs

Self-Service Helps Devs Solve Cloud Security and Compliance

Organizations that need compliance must follow a growing number of security standards—PCI, HIPAA, SOC 2 and GDPR just to name a few. Every new standard gives rise to an exhaustive list of hard-to-implement security controls. Cloud providers like AWS have tried to help, but there is still a lot left for developers to do to […]

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