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Automation: The unsung savior of tech

CompTIA's Chief Technology Evangelist talks the value of infrastructure as code.

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In Episode 4 of The Mostly AI SmartPod, I sit down with Dr. James Stanger, chief technology evangelist at CompTIA, to discuss how automation, not just some hipster version of Mythos or Claude or ChatGPT, is going to change how we do things in IT.

Stanger digs down to the core: infrastructure as code (e.g., Ansible, Chef and Puppet), and how these unsung technologies are vital for IT to establish a working foundation of the tech we know, which includes cloud, data centers and on-premise.

“If you don’t have that foundation in order through your infrastructure as code, then you’re going to end up with all sorts of gremlins going on,” Stanger says, even going so far as to make some “dad jokes” about technical debt.

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