Why DevOps should motivate your QA testers

Author

Phil A
March 25, 2025

This week’s bytes:

  • The perfect career path for QA testers

  • Why introverted engineering managers are elite

  • How to immediately eliminate overwhelm

Worth reading

Take a byte out of the week’s top news.

4-minute read by Ben Linders

Want to hire and retain top testers? Show them a career path beyond bug reports. Encouraging testers to pursue DevOps transforms them into high-impact engineers, proving that QA isn’t a dead-end—it’s a launchpad to lucrative, high-demand roles in modern software development.

7-minute read by Alex Ponomarev

Forget loud, in-your-face leadership. Introverted managers are playing chess while others play checkers. By leading from the shadows, they empower teams, avoid drama, and build self-sufficient engineers. If you think great management means taking the spotlight, you’re doing it wrong. Here’s why quiet leadership wins.

7-minute read by Berry Zwets

APIs are the backbone of modern apps, but managing them is a nightmare. WSO2 claims to fix that with Ballerina Integrator, AI-powered automation, and open-source flexibility. Can they truly tame the API chaos, or is this just another integration dream?

8-minute read by Coen Van Eenbergen

With Yokohama, ServiceNow is turning the Now platform into an AI command center, deploying AI agents to automate IT, HR, and security workflows. But will these agents truly make work easier, or just add another layer of AI complexity? The future of enterprise AI might be here.

🚀The Ultimate Kubernetes Production Checklist: are you doing it right?

12-minute read by Utku Darilmaz and Renato Losio

Running Kubernetes at scale is a minefield of potential failures. From workload placement to cost optimization, this checklist for SREs tackles the most common pitfalls that lead to downtime and inefficiencies. Stick to these best practices to keep your clusters stable, secure, and cost-efficient.

Best quick bytes

Recent tweets, picked just for you.

#1. 🏆

Fighting with AI is part of the job description.

#2. 🏆

Next time you feel stuck or overwhelmed, just remember that there is probably a simple path forward. Being open-minded is what’s hard.

#3. 🏆

If you can finally break up with uncertainty, you’ll realize the journey is all we have.

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