Guy Levi – Revolutionizing Software Development with AI Automation | swampUP 2025

Hi everyone. We're back here at our day two coverage of Swamp Up. Let me introduce you quickly to our next guest.

His name is Guy Levy. Guy. First of all, welcome to Tech Drunk tv.

It's great to have you on here. It's my pleasure. So I, I guy, I give him your name, but share with the audience.

What do you do at Jfr? All right. So I'm leading the architects team in the city office of Jfr, meaning mainly focusing on the advanced technologies and something like beyond the border or beyond the horizon, kind of next.

Next. Yeah. Very cool.

There was plenty of next gen stuff talked about here, but you know, for, for those of you who've never been at a, a Jfr Swamp Up, part of the mantra is we don't come here talking about what we're going to do next year. Mm-hmm. We come here showing you what we have ready now.

So even though it was next gen, it was stuff that's ready now, you know, and we've tried to cover it, you know, in the last day and a half, two days here. But Guy, what for you, what, what was some of the highlights? What were the big things that really you were excited to show?

Alright, so there are a couple of those. Uh, the first one, I think the UPT trusts, uh, capabilities and the ability to cover end-to-end, uh, uh, trust on the application visits, application level was one of a big thing, like tying everything together into one direction. And the second thing was around fly.

Did you see that enough? Yes, I was, I was sitting in the, in the, I was in the front row, actually first table. So, and I, uh, I wrote about it a little bit, but we haven't really discussed it yet on the video here.

Okay. So, uh, FLY is the first ever Argentic repository that will introduce to the market. Um, it's actually the next generation of how to support your iGen development environment.

How to support teams that are going iGen, AI first development, and want to have the right tooling in order to speed up their, uh, processes and to control it on a iGen AI pace of things. Sure. You know, and, and again, for those maybe who aren't familiar with Jfr, right?

Jfr was a company, the acorn that this Oak Tree grew into Exactly. Was based on a repository, based on Artifactory, a repository for artifacts. And since that time, j Fer has started several repositories.

Mm-hmm. Uh, and Fly of course is the latest, but as far as I know, this is the first Agentic repository mm-hmm. That we've seen out here.

Yeah. So this is exactly why we are in the right position to introduce the next level and the next generation of repositories to the market. What we are doing is actually, it's not only the repository, the development, uh, uh, pace process way of doing things is changing due to ai.

So people are using more and more agent code generation, uh, technologies. They can do more features per day, they can develop more, they can release more, they can generate more code, which means generating more artifacts and having multiple streams of artifact that are concurrently progressing in your project. And for that, you need a repository that can handle that and can support you in order to manage and store those artifacts, find them and deploy them and the pace that you are generating this code.

Lovely. Good, good, good. Um, now one of the questions I, so I, I tell you, we do a show every morning at Textron called Textron Gang.

Right. Five, six people pundits, and we talk about whatever we three, we always have three topics every day, whatever's big that day. Mm-hmm.

Today, one of the topics was Swamp Up because we had me and another one of our tech drunk people here. Mm-hmm. And we talked briefly about fly a question that one of the other people on the panel had.

Well, is this just for internally developed agents? Can I put third party agents in there? Is Jfr, is it just for Jfr approved agents?

You know, what kind of agents can I keep in fly? Alright, So FLY is actually an agent repository. So it means that the repository itself is agent and doing stuff for you and supporting your development.

And your development can be traditional features or agents or whatever you need. Now, uh, when producing code with agents, what we see, and this is something that we experience and I think it's becoming a trend in the industry, that the people are conductors of code. They are not the writers of code.

So we have people that are working in parallel on few features, couple of systems because they are conducting that they are not actually doing the work. And this creates like a big stream and flow of software that is being generated. And in this kind of environment, you need to think differently about how you version, how you release, how you manage the process, how you control that uhhuh.

Okay. So this kind of stream that is being expanded need a different method of managing This really is. Yeah.

Yeah. And this is exactly what Fly is doing. It's a hope different paradigm.

It's a different paradigm. And we see, we see that we actually write fly with those methods. So we are using that and we are experiencing that Based on what it's like eating your own dog food or drinking your own champagne Better.

Yeah. Champagne. Yeah, champagne is better.

Yeah. Uh, and now what, are people using it yet or no? So we just introduced and uh, presented that, right?

Yes. We have, uh, some very, uh, small initial group of, uh, uh, users that, uh, that already use that. And there is a waiting list really.

So you can now go to the, uh, fly page on uh, j com and register to the waiting list. We'll get the, the request and we'll enable more and more customers. I love it.

I love it. Um, so one, one of the, another question that came up on the gang today is, you know, we, we've seen the move from DevOps from point solutions to platform, JFR platform, Of course GitLab platform, this pla a harness, whatever, there's all platforms and basically an organization pick what platform. There's some shops that are jfr shops, some that are this one, that one what have you.

Are we going to see the same thing with agentic repositories? You think other people will come out with agentic repos and do they at some level begin to communicate or is that you pick your repo and that's what you use? Hmm, Interesting.

Again, I We're guessing about the future, but Right. The, the, I think that reality shows that there are multiple options and, you know, talking to our customers and serving our customers in this segment for the past 16 years, we know that there is a variety. Okay.

There's a, a more system, more adjacent system integration, sometime competition that is, uh, part of the customer ecosystem, uh, that our systems are in. Okay. So with that, I think as part of our, part of our platform of the J four platform, we have the two integrated to fail philosophy and we are promoting those kind of integrations on the platform level.

And of course this philosophy applies to fly as well. So we do see additional adjacent systems that people are using. This is part of our investment to do those kinds of integration and to be prepared for the customer ecosystem because the customer need to have the choice.

Absolutely. Alright, excellent. Beyond Fly, what else was big for you here?

So, as I talked about the App Trust, uhhuh, I think that's, uh, like a summary of announcement and functionality that we've been releasing to the market for the past two years. Um, it now customers can see that the whole picture can now connect the dots and see how we as a platform can enable them to manage business level applications and connect them to the artifacts and the physical entities that they are managing. And doing that by controlling the flows, getting all the metadata that they need in order to manage, to understand, to triangulate, to debug, to roll back versions and everything under a single roof that is connected and trusted.

And that's, that's, that's the dream, right? That's, that's what we wanna go. Yes.

And we can say that time and time again, those are kind of integrations that customers are doing themself, right? They're doing their, uh, own label. Yeah.

Their own scripts, internal systems and stuff that you need to work around in order to make it, to, to work in your environment. And now this kind of integration is, again, you create a system now you need to maintain it, fix it, upgrade it, upgrade the integrated system, and make sure that everything still works. And with our, uh, app trusts and the integration that we already built it inside, so ServiceNow, Sona, and the others that were presented, um, we do the work for you as a customer so you can trust us that it will work.

And this is what we are doing with the leading vendors in this area, Area, this video as well. Yeah. Yeah.

Excellent guy. Thank you for coming on, man. Thank you.

I know you are. It's the first time you've been on with us, but yeah, very conversational. We appreciate Keep up the great work.

We'd love to hear more. We're gonna be watching as fly develops here. There Will be more developments to come.

I'm sure. I'm sure. Check it out.

Jfr Fly the first Agentic repository. Go check that out. We're gonna take a break and we're gonna continue our day two coverage here at Jfr Swamp up in Napa.

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