Targeting Architects and Lead Engineers
February 1-3, 2027
Email us at info@clear-measure.com to get started.
Taught by Jeffrey Palermo, this hands-on bootcamp deepens your understanding of AI-driven development, modern DevOps, and the engineering practices that make it work. This bootcamp is ideal for software engineers and architects looking to sharpen their skills with AI and accelerate delivery.
Monday, February 1. Warm-up: zero to first commit in 10 minutes, on your team's own system
Module 1
Your team's own GitOps delivery system, defined as code from CI to production, with AI agents in the loop and the Three Ways of DevOps tied to business goals.
Capabilities you'll see working
Technologies
Module 2
Organize work for flow and for agents: estimate and slice features, build in quality control, write items an AI agent can execute, and report metrics that matter.
Capabilities you'll see working
Technologies
Module 3
Prevent defects instead of chasing them: write failing tests first, let an AI agent make them pass inside your guardrails.
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Technologies
Module 4
Calm, recoverable production: deployments that migrate, verify and fail fast, OpenTelemetry into Application Insights, and AI Ops agents reading health and telemetry.
Capabilities you'll see working
Technologies
Tuesday, February 2. Warm-up: describe your own environment and architecture to two peers
Module 5
A high-throughput team where AI agents do the typing: pairs design and estimate features, then ship them in small commits, each directing its own agent.
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Technologies
Module 6
Integrate many changes a day without breaking the build: review small pull requests with an AI reviewer, and let CI run with required checks and release candidates.
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Technologies
Module 7
Change a running system safely: move hosting by pull request, scale by declaration, add resilience.
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Technologies
AI UIs with MCP connections. An in-app AI assistant and outside agents work the application through an MCP server whose tools map to its own commands and queries, behind an LLM gateway with tracing and health checks. Make every app AI compatible.
Wednesday, February 3. Closing with an assessment of your own environment
Module 8
Scale AI from one developer to the team: run models locally or in the cloud, build and test LLM features, and govern agents and people working on one system.
Capabilities you'll see working
Technologies
Module 9
The whole lifecycle, automated: an AI Software Factory takes work from concept to release with AI workers at every stage, and incidents when health checks fail.
Capabilities you'll see working
Technologies
Wrap-up: assess your own environment. Score it against the capability checklist and choose the changes that most improve clarity, quality, stability, speed and your team.
Jeffrey Palermo will be the facilitator of this in-person course.
Instruction starts at 8:30 AM and will end at 5:30 PM each day.
Homework will be assigned.
There will be a 1.5 hour break for lunch each day.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner will be on your own. Water is provided.
As Clear Measure CTO & Chairman, Jeffrey, a Microsoft MVP since 2006, is also the founder of the AI DevOps Podcast. Previously he was a founding board member of Agile Austin, the founder of AzureAustin, and a leader in the Austin .NET User Group.
Jeffrey is a well-known author and international public speaker. He has received 13 Most Valuable Professional awards from Microsoft and has spoken at industry conferences such as Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Build, DevTeach, VSLive, and various other regional conferences. Jeffrey has other books in the ASP.NET MVC in Action series as well as two video books on ASP.NET MVC and nearly a dozen magazine articles on various .NET development topics.
Jeffrey also loves conversations that involve: Jesus, motorcycles (KTM), Boy Scouts, military deployments, Texas A&M, and camping.
Training location: Lakeway Resort and Spa
If you have any questions at all while making your plans for attending, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Prior to enrollment: info@clear-measure.com
Following enrollment, our contact will be made available to you for any questions.
Located on the shores of Lake Travis, our 3-day training will be conducted at Lakeway Resort and Spa.
Our training is about 23 miles from Downtown Austin. Depending on traffic, plan for about a 50 minute drive into town.
Austin-Bergstrom Airport is about 30 miles - or 1 hour from Lakeway Resort and Spa.
Email us at info@clear-measure.com to get started.
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