Join us as we explore where the line sits between developer freedom and total chaos in the agentic era! In this episode, Eyal Goldenberg, Director of SaaS Platform & DevOps at Cellebrite, shares how a company that lived on-prem since 1999 made the jump to SaaS, started its platform deliberately "not opinionated" — and learned the hard way why you have to get opinionated to move fast and safe once agents enter the picture. Discover his line on what really separates freedom from chaos ("just how much light you turn on in the room"), how his team built an SDLC fleet of 30+ agents and 40+ skills devs pull as versioned plugins, and why he bets DevOps — soon "AIOps" — is the role that survives and grows.

Eyal Goldenberg on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eyal-goldenberg/

Miki Manor on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikimanor/

Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/

DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=all

Key takeaways:

• Cellebrite has run digital-forensics tooling for law enforcement since 1999, all on-prem — then ~5 years ago made the leap to SaaS to finally answer the constant customer pain of slow, on-prem-bound delivery
• The platform started deliberately "not opinionated" — everyone did what they wanted — which quickly turned into a wild west of conflicting decisions; the team is now moving opinionated on purpose, because speed and safety with agents demand it
• "The difference between freedom and chaos is just how much light you turn on in the room" — they're strict and standardized on CD, but CI still has too much freedom that needs trimming
• Building an agent isn't the hard part — the real questions are who it serves, how it serves, and who orchestrates the orchestrators before everyone reinvents the wheel
• The spaghetti-code warning: if we lean only on agents and stop talking to each other, we'll hit a point where reverting is impossible and "rewrite it all again" becomes an infinite loop — talk to other humans, your pain is shared
• Their SDLC fleet: 30+ agents and 40+ skills, with Terraform and React skills devs pull down as plugins, contribute back to, and version semantically — each app repo owning its slice
• Heavy regulation (FedRAMP and more) means no infrastructure gaps between high and low environments — feature gaps are fine, infra gaps are not
• DevOps's edge over developers is the wide lens — from infrastructure all the way to production — connecting the dots devs (who mostly care that "the pod works") don't see
• Hiring has flipped: Eyal now leads with AI questions and a troubleshooting scenario — if a candidate still manually edits the UI and configs, they're in the old world; he wants to see them drive an agent to investigate, run, and self-correct* On 2027: DevOps doesn't disappear, it becomes AIOps and grows — more compute, more GPU, more agents, agent-to-agent conflicts needing arbiters — someone still has to build, scale, and monitor the infrastructure

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