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DevOps in Switzerland 2025: Scaling DevOps with Platforms and AI
DevOps in Switzerland has evolved from practice to platform-enabled and AI-augmented delivery. The 2025 report reveals that over half of organizations have dedicated platform teams, while one-third already use AI in DevOps. GitLab, Kubernetes, and Terraform remain dominant, but cultural challenges persist. The future is clear: DevOps must scale through platforms, leverage AI responsibly, and focus on outcomes—while keeping people at the center. Watch the release video for mor
Romano Roth
Jul 132 min read


AI risk management: turning governance into a driver of long-term success
Many companies don’t fail at building AI, they fail at scaling it. The reason isn’t technology, but missing governance. Without control, AI initiatives introduce risk, create fragmented architectures, and erode trust. This article explores how integrated, lightweight governance enables responsible AI at scale—aligning with business goals, ensuring compliance, and driving long-term value across the enterprise.
Romano Roth
Jul 85 min read


Secure AI governance: Scalable delivery, zero disruption
As AI adoption grows, many organisations struggle to scale beyond pilots. The solution? Embed governance from the start. By aligning AI with business goals and integrating compliance, transparency, and accountability early on, Zühlke turns AI governance into a driver of innovation, trust, and long-term success—powered by the Cybernetic Delivery Platform and a modular, future-proof approach.
Romano Roth
Jul 44 min read


The Cybernetic Enterprise: How Organizations Can Learn, Adapt, and Deliver in an AI-Native World
Most orgs run on outdated command-control models. A Cybernetic Enterprise builds feedback loops so systems learn and adapt in real time. Don’t build for stability—build for change. Map your value loops, close them, and let your system learn.
Romano Roth
Jul 23 min read


The Cybernetic Enterprise: turning industrial AI hype into lasting value
AI hype dominates industry, but real value comes from human-led, AI-enabled strategies. The Cybernetic Enterprise integrates people, processes, and technology into adaptive systems, fostering continuous learning and sustainable value. Success demands shifting from task execution to cybernetic thinking, empowering teams, and investing in future-ready skills.
Romano Roth
Jun 275 min read


Cybernetics Is the Future: Why AI and DevOps Alone Won’t Get Us There
The future of DevOps isn’t AI—it’s cybernetic. In my keynote at DevOps Pro Europe 2025, I explored how adaptive systems combining humans, AI, governance, and platforms can drive continuous value. AI won’t fix broken processes; platform engineering will. Cybernetic platforms empower developers with self-service, secure, and scalable delivery models—turning hype into real business outcomes.
Romano Roth
Jun 143 min read


Coding Without Coders?
AI is transforming software development—from manual coding to prompt-driven creation. While this boosts productivity, it also raises questions about the future role of developers. In this article, Romano Roth explores how AI tools like Zühlke’s Cybernetic Delivery Platform (CDP) reshape coding, demand new skills, and shift the focus from code writing to system thinking. One thing is clear: the future of development is human-AI collaboration.
Romano Roth
Jun 113 min read


Riding the AI Wave: How Industrial Companies Can Harness It Purposefully
AI alone won't shape a company's future—people will. True transformation comes from intelligently orchestrating technology, processes, and organization in a learning system: the Cybernetic Enterprise. It’s not about replacing humans, but empowering them. Companies that embed AI into platform strategies and foster a culture of adaptability will thrive. The future isn’t AI-First—it’s Human-Led and AI-Enabled.
Romano Roth
Jun 83 min read


The Cybernetic Enterprise: Why AI Alone Won’t Transform Industry
AI alone will not transform your enterprise. In this keynote from the CTO Forum of the Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille, Romano Ross outlines why the future belongs to cybernetic enterprises—adaptive, feedback-driven systems where process, organization, technology, governance, and AI work together to deliver lasting business value. Learn how platform engineering, not AI hype, is the real enabler of scalable digital transformation.
Romano Roth
May 173 min read


DevEx: A Strategic Imperative for Business Success
DevEx is key to innovation—boosting speed, talent retention, and business value by removing friction and empowering developers with AI and p
Romano Roth
Mar 243 min read


The Cybernetic Enterprise is Coming – Are You Ready?
Legacy control-centric enterprises buckle under volatility. The Cybernetic Enterprise replaces rigidity with living feedback loops. Teams own products end-to-end, guided by outcome metrics visible to all. AI copilots surface insights, platforms dissolve toil, and governance shifts from gatekeeping to guardrails. The result is a learning organisn. Fast, resilient, purposeful, continuously aligning technology and talent with the market’s next signal. This is your blueprint for
Romano Roth
Dec 1, 20243 min read


Introduction to Flip the Switch on Modern Software Development with Feature Flags
In my two decades of experience leading DevOps, Digital, and Agile transformations, I’ve observed that the path to modernisation is...
Romano Roth
Nov 27, 20243 min read


Introduction to Modern Development Practices in Banking: A Playbook
Intdiuction the the eBook Moving to Modern Development Practices in Banking: A Playbook Welcome to the “Modern Banking eBook”, a...
Romano Roth
Mar 29, 20243 min read


What are Digital Factories ?
a talk with Romano Roth, DevOps Thought Leader and Dr. Milan Milanović Architecture Thought Leader. Source: https://newsletter.techworld-...
Romano Roth
Oct 26, 20235 min read


DevOps in an Embedded World: Challenges for Embedded and IoT Devices
Embedded and IoT devices are becoming increasingly popular in today's world. These devices are used in various industries, such as...
Romano Roth
Aug 28, 20236 min read


Moving to Modern Software Development and Continuous Integration for Banks: Insights from Romano
Moving to Modern Software Development and Continuous Integration for Banks: Insights from Romano
Romano Roth
Aug 2, 20233 min read


D for DevOps: The Philosophy of Software Engineering
I had the honor of being interviewed by 📈 Matt Warcholinski 💾 from Brainhub in his 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭🎙️ on 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡...
Romano Roth
Jul 21, 20231 min read


DevOps Is NOT Dead
Join Eveline Oehrlich and Romano Roth, to discuss whether DevOps is Dead. Transcript Narrator 00:02 You’re listening to the humans of...
Romano Roth
May 10, 202315 min read


DevTalk Podcast Episode 88: The state of DevOps. With Romano Roth
On episode 88 of DevTalk I and Kerry W. Lothrop speak about the state of DevOps. Original Post: https://kerry.lothrop.de/devtalk-88-roman...
Romano Roth
Mar 21, 20231 min read


Interview mit Golem.de: "Wenn wir über DevOps reden, müssen wir über Menschen reden"
Romano Roth ist Chief of DevOps bei Zühlke. Im Interview erklärt er, warum DevOps kein Bullshit ist, wie die Transformation im Unternehmen g
Romano Roth
Jan 7, 20238 min read
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