Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Lisa Martin dive into a set of DevOps market research reports from The Futurum Group that find increased levels of maturity among organizations adopting best practices is driving a forecasted compound annual growth rate in excess of 9% through 2028.

Then, the gang discusses a Renaissance that is occurring with the arrival of Java 24 before musing about what it will mean for Disney Studios to build Star Wars droids infused with artificial intelligence (AI) with help from NVIDIA and Google DeepMind.