Kubiya gives developers a hand with a conversational AI platform

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Generations of developers have worked with command-line interfaces to build and deploy applications.

One of the challenges of this approach is that it requires manual knowledge and effort, time and skill, which is essential in the modern world. It's a challenge Amit Eyal Govrin took on time and again while working at Amazon, where he managed devops partnerships for the cloud giant. Shaked Askayo faced a similar challenge, working as a devops leader at fintech startup BlueVine, and he needed a system that could replicate his skills to help the organization scale its efforts. devops.

Askayo and Govrin got together in early 2022 and came up with the idea of ​​finding a way to solve the problem they both had. That idea became Kubiya, which is stealthily launching today with $6 million in seed funding.

"Kubiya is an advanced virtual assistant for devops," Govrin told VentureBeat. "Self-service devops is what we enable."

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The basic idea behind all conversational AI technologies is that a user or consumer can have a conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) powered system that will provide answers or help perform a task .

Conversational AI is already widely used for bots and automated chat tools that answer queries on all types of websites and public services. Customer experience (CX) platforms are among the leaders in the adoption of conversational AI and are also used to help businesses stay organized with technologies such as Xembly. Conversational AI can also be a boon to support mental health treatment, according to a report.

Kubiya is now taking conversational AI in a different direction, as a way to help developers with domain-specific knowledge as well as workflow. Govrin explained that Kubiya can be integrated into the tools developers use to help provide answers to questions they might have. More importantly, from his perspective, however, is that Kubiya seeks to provide a self-service platform that performs development tasks.

“We enable people to have complete conversations that are converted into operational workflows,” said Govrin.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no stranger to the DevOps world, although it has often been used for purposes different from Kubiya's. For example, there are AI-assisted development tools, including GitHub Copilot, that provide code suggestions for developers to build apps.

Govrin said that GitHub Copilot is all about code completion, unlike what Kubiya does, which is the next level and helps with operational completion, getting apps up and running in environments of production. While there is no direct integration between Kubiya and GitHub Copilot today, Govrin said there will likely be some form of integration in the near future.

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