We’re thrilled to announce the finalists for the DevOps Dozen Awards 2024, recognizing this year’s top innovators and their standout contributions in the DevOps field. These exceptional individuals and organizations have shown true dedication to advancing DevOps, driving progress and excellence in our industry over the past year.

Congratulations to all the finalists! Your hard work and commitment make a meaningful impact, and we’re grateful for everything you do.

Now, let’s take a look at the finalists for the DevOps Dozen Awards 2024:

Community Awards

Best DevOps-Related Video or Audio Podcast

• Large-Scale DevSecOps Transformation Webinar (Opus Technologies0
• The Day in the Life of a Mainframe Developer using Git Workflow (IBM)
• “What’s Up, Mainframe” podcast, hosted by Lukas and Zach (Broadcom)
• Grafana’s Big Tent podcast (Grafana Labs)
• The Modern Mainframe (BMC Software)

Best DevOps Book of the Year

• The DevOps Story (Cactus Communications Pvt. Ltd.)
• Kubernetes: Practical Guide for Developers and DevOps Teams (Rheinwerk Publishing, Inc.)
• Continuous Testing, Quality, Security and Feedback: Essential strategies and secure practices for DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE transformations (Engineering DevOps Consulting)
• Flow Engineering (IT Revolution)

Top DevOps Community Evangelist

• Omkar Kadam (Cactus Communications Pvt. Ltd.)
• Giorgi Keratishvili (DevOps Georgia)

Best DevOps Event of the Year

• swampUP (JFrog)
• GrafanaCON 2024 (Grafana Labs)
• Galaxy ‘24 (LaunchDarkly)

Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project

• vCluster (Loft Labs)
• Jenkins (Jenkins Open Source Project)
• Galasa (Open Mainframe Project)
• Eclipse Temurin (The Eclipse Foundation)
• Grafana Alloy (Grafana Labs)
• ZAP by Checkmarx (Checkmarx)
• CloudOps Accelerator (Lana)

Best DevOps.com Article of the Year

• Blog: 404 Role Not Found by Garima Bajpai
• Succeeding at DevSecOps Requires a Rubric for SDLC Governance by Raj Mallempati
• The Ruby on Rails Resurgence by Jim Remsik
• Platform Engineering: The 2024 Game-Changer in Tech by Yossi Carmon
• Can AI Replace DevOps Engineers? by Alexander Simonov
• Enhancing Your Company’s DevEx With CI/CD Strategies by Romaric Philogène

DevOps Enterprise Leader of the Year

Sheree Britt, AVP, Software Engineering Mainframe Modernization, TD Bank Group

Tools and Services Awards

DevOps Dozen Awards 2024 Finalists Announced

DevOps Dozen Awards 2024 Finalists Announced

By: Alan Shimel on November 13, 2024

We’re thrilled to announce the finalists for the DevOps Dozen Awards 2024, recognizing this year’s top innovators and their standout contributions in the DevOps field. These exceptional individuals and organizations have shown true dedication to advancing DevOps, driving progress and excellence in our industry over the past year.

Congratulations to all the finalists! Your hard work and commitment make a meaningful impact, and we’re grateful for everything you do.

Now, let’s take a look at the finalists for the DevOps Dozen Awards 2024:

Community Awards

Best DevOps-Related Video or Audio Podcast

• Large-Scale DevSecOps Transformation Webinar (Opus Technologies0
• The Day in the Life of a Mainframe Developer using Git Workflow (IBM)
• “What’s Up, Mainframe” podcast, hosted by Lukas and Zach (Broadcom)
• Grafana’s Big Tent podcast (Grafana Labs)
• The Modern Mainframe (BMC Software)

Best DevOps Book of the Year

• The DevOps Story (Cactus Communications Pvt. Ltd.)
• Kubernetes: Practical Guide for Developers and DevOps Teams (Rheinwerk Publishing, Inc.)
• Continuous Testing, Quality, Security and Feedback: Essential strategies and secure practices for DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE transformations (Engineering DevOps Consulting)
• Flow Engineering (IT Revolution)

Top DevOps Community Evangelist

• Omkar Kadam (Cactus Communications Pvt. Ltd.)
• Giorgi Keratishvili (DevOps Georgia)

Best DevOps Event of the Year

• swampUP (JFrog)
• GrafanaCON 2024 (Grafana Labs)
• Galaxy ‘24 (LaunchDarkly)

Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project

• vCluster (Loft Labs)
• Jenkins (Jenkins Open Source Project)
• Galasa (Open Mainframe Project)
• Eclipse Temurin (The Eclipse Foundation)
• Grafana Alloy (Grafana Labs)
• ZAP by Checkmarx (Checkmarx)
• CloudOps Accelerator (Lana)

Best DevOps.com Article of the Year

• Blog: 404 Role Not Found by Garima Bajpai
• Succeeding at DevSecOps Requires a Rubric for SDLC Governance by Raj Mallempati
• The Ruby on Rails Resurgence by Jim Remsik
• Platform Engineering: The 2024 Game-Changer in Tech by Yossi Carmon
• Can AI Replace DevOps Engineers? by Alexander Simonov
• Enhancing Your Company’s DevEx With CI/CD Strategies by Romaric Philogène

DevOps Enterprise Leader of the Year

• Sheree Britt, AVP, Software Engineering Mainframe Modernization, TD Bank Group

Tools and Services Awards

Best DevOps Industry Implementation

• Operation Joined Arrows program for FIS

Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research

• The 2024 State of Digital Quality Report (Applause)
• 2024 Observability Survey (Grafana Labs)
• The Software Supply Chain State of the Union 2024 (JFrog)

Best End-to-End DevOps Platform

• Octopus Deploy
• Opsera Unified DevOps Platform, powered by Hummingbird AI
• CloudBees
• Codiac
• Harness
• Sonatype
• BMC Helix Multi Cloud Broker
• Buildkite
• Copado
• JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform

Best Application of AI in DevOps Tool/Platform

• The Crowdbotics CodeOps Platform
• GitLab Duo
• AI Code Assurance and AI CodeFix for SonarQube
• BMC AMI DevX Code Insights with BMC AMI Assistant
• PagerDuty AIOps
• Change Risk Prediction (CRP) by Digital.ai
• Launchable by CloudBees
• LaunchDarkly for the AI Engineer
• Phison aiDAPTIV+ Pro Suite
• Harness Continuous Delivery: Continuous Verification

Top DevOps Vendor Evangelist

• Frank Kilcommins (SmartBear)
• Puneet Kohli (Rocket Software)
• Michael Friedrich (GitLab)
• Tony Anter (BMC Software)
• Cody De Arkland (LaunchDarkly)
• Tony Anter (BMC Software)
• Dewan Ahmed (Harness)
• Melissa McKay (JFrog)
• Steve Simpson (Copado)
• David Brooks (Copado)

Best Value Stream Management

• ValueOps by Broadcom
• Harness Software Engineering Insights

Best Observability Solution

• Catchpoint’s Internet Stack Map (Catchpoint Systems, Inc.)
• Develocity (Gradle Inc.)
• Intelligent Canaries (Cloud Canaries)
• Sumo Logic SaaS Log Analytics Platform (Sumo Logic)
• ScienceLoigc AI Platform (ScienceLogic)
• Grafana Cloud (Grafana Labs)
• Observe Inc. (Observe Inc.)
• Mezmo (Mezmo)
• Splunk Observability Cloud (Splunk, a Cisco company)
• Chronosphere’s Observability Platform (Chronosphere)

Best DevSecOps Solution

• The Orca Cloud Security Platform
• Sysdig Secure
• Sumo Logic SaaS Log Analytics Platform
• BlueFlag Security Platform
• OpsMx Delivery Shield
• Checkmarx One
• Harness Security Testing Orchestration
• ReversingLabs Spectra Assure
• Contrast ADR – Application Detection and Response
• JFrog Advanced Security

Best Platform Engineering Solution

• Komodor Platform
• Temporal
• Solo.io
• Harness Internal Developer Portal
• BMC Helix AIOps

Best Testing Service/Tool

• Sauce Labs Platform for Test
• Tricentis SeaLights
• Applause Accessibility & Usability Solutions for DevOps Teams
• SonarQube
• BMC AMI DevX Total Test
• Launchable by CloudBees
• Applitools
• Temporal
• Copado
• Diffblue Cover

Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution

• Code4z / Test4z (Broadcom)
• BMC AMI DevX

Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution

• Reactor Intelligent Data Pipeline (Reactor, a SoundCommerce technology)
• SymmetricDS (Jumpmind)
• Aerospike Database (Aerospike)
• Redgate end-to-end Database DevOps portfolio (Redgate)
• BMC AMI Data (BMC)
• Harness Database DevOps (Harness)
• EDB Postgres AI (EDB)

Best New DevOps Tool

• StackGen
• System Initiative
• Intelligent Canaries (Cloud Canaries)
• Codiac
• BMC AMI DevX Code Insights with BMC AMI Assistant
• Progress Chef Courier
• BMC Ask HelixGPT Virtual Assistant

DevOps Industry Leader of the Year

• Dan Rogers (LaunchDarkly)
• Anuj Kapur (CloudBees)
• Idit Levine (Solo.io)

Voting for the winners is now open to the public. To vote for the leaders, tools and companies you think are truly deserving of an award for their exceptional service to the DevOps community, please visit the DevOps Dozen website.Winners will be chosen from among the finalists, with general public voting weighted for 40% of the final score and our judges’ selections for 60% of the final score. The deadline for public voting is December 31, 2024.The winners will be announced at the Predict 2025 Virtual Summit on January 9, 2025, and will receive both digital badges and physical trophies celebrating their achievements.Thanks to everyone who has supported the DevOps Dozen Awards by nominating candidates and voting. Good luck to all the finalists!