Nov 2, 2026 · 12 min · 7 segments
Michael speaks with Greg Skerman, Director of Technology at iseekplant Greg Skerman is a veteran technical leader based in Brisbane who has spent more than a decade…
And one thing that we want to talk about with all of our speakers this year in line with that is how you've either retooled or adapted or evolved professionally.
What is something in software delivery that would have felt reckless to you five years ago that you now consider safe because guardrails around what we do for those things have improved?
And when we sort of first started looking into that, that looked utterly terrifying, the idea that you would just...
Whether or not something found its way into the hands of customers in production was completely down to whether a pull request got merged.
so accessible now, the turnkey pipelines, if you don't want to use those, you can ask AI to go and generate you one that will execute your test suite, that will run the smoke tests when something actually hits the production environment, the amount of observability that you've got post deployment that allows you to know whether or not something has failed or Even the tooling around sort of feature flags and canary releases and so on has just made that just a complete non-event to the point now where you'd almost feel as reckless to not be doing it, in my opinion.
So it's like as soon as you open that first pull request, as long as you've got it turned on, it will all just work.
And one thing that we want to talk about with all of our speakers this year in line with that is how you've either retooled or adapted or evolved professionally.
What is something in software delivery that would have felt reckless to you five years ago that you now consider safe because guardrails around what we do for those things have improved?
And when we sort of first started looking into that, that looked utterly terrifying, the idea that you would just...
Whether or not something found its way into the hands of customers in production was completely down to whether a pull request got merged.
so accessible now, the turnkey pipelines, if you don't want to use those, you can ask AI to go and generate you one that will execute your test suite, that will run the smoke tests when something actually hits the production environment, the amount of observability that you've got post deployment that allows you to know whether or not something has failed or Even the tooling around sort of feature flags and canary releases and so on has just made that just a complete non-event to the point now where you'd almost feel as reckless to not be doing it, in my opinion.
So it's like as soon as you open that first pull request, as long as you've got it turned on, it will all just work.
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