On The Radar

Software engineering teams move fast, and DevOps can no longer afford to become the organization’s bottleneck. In this episode, Eitan Masuary, Haggai Philip Zagury, and Gaby Tal from Tikal’s DevOps group talk about Platform Engineering and the shift from a ticket driven DevOps model to building an internal platform as a product. They discuss how self service approaches give developers more autonomy, reduce repetitive operational work, and help teams move faster while maintaining standards. The episode also looks at where to start when introducing a platform and why identifying early adopters inside the organization is key to successful adoption.

Agentic SDLC only works when the entire environment supports it. In this final episode of the series, Nir Kaufman, Tech lead at Tikal hosts Lior Kanfi, CEO and founder of Tikal, and Yishai Beeri, CTO at LinearB, to talk about what it really means to implement Agentic SDLC at scale. They unpack the technical and organizational foundations required to make it work: from infra that enables context sharing and tool coordination, to clearly defined ownership models, and from architectural patterns to gradual team-wide adoption.

Most developers think of “context” as documentation or vector search. But in real AI systems, context is a dynamic, cross-cutting concern that spans the full SDLC. In this episode, Nir Kaufman, Tech Lead at Tikal, is joined by Nir Alfasi, Backend Tech Lead at Tikal, and Matan Grady, Director of Product at Port.io. Together, they unpack what Context Engineering actually looks like in production: from tribal knowledge and markdown chaos, to memory design, tool orchestration, and human decision making.

AI is writing code, but is it helping us work better? What happens when the initial excitement of "chatting with AI" turns into a loop of losing context and correcting code? In this Tech Radar Voice episode,, Nir Kaufman, Tech Lead at Tikal, hosts Roy Kass, Fullstack Tech Lead & Head of Training at Tika and Muly Gottlieb, Head of Engineering at Applitools for a candid conversation about the evolution of the individual developer’s workflow. The discussion moves through the trap of prompt fatigue, the necessity of treating AI like a talented but inexperienced junior, and why Spec Driven Development is making a comeback not as documentation, but as the only way to stay in control of non-deterministic tools.

State of Agentic SDLC by Tikal Knowledge