Michael Friedrich

Annapolis, Raleigh

News Director at WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)

News Director @WRAL Founder: Friedrich Media, LLC. Former ND @kutv2news, assistant ND @KPRC2, Houston; EP @ABC7News, DC & @wjz

Articles

Invisible Crisis

3 weeks ago | thebaffler.com | Michael Friedrich

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone. Crown, 448 pages. 2025. Celeste Walker was picking up her kids from a friend’s when a neighbor called to tell her that her rental house, in an Atlanta suburb, was on fire. By the time she got home, the place was a soaked and smoldering ruin, surrounded by firefighters. In a flash, the family’s possessions were reduced to her children’s backpacks and a few hampers full of dirty laundry that had been sitting in her SUV.
Efficient DevSecOps Workflows With a Little Help From AI

2 months ago | infoq.com | Michael Friedrich

InfoQ Homepage Presentations Efficient DevSecOps Workflows With a Little Help From AI 48:43 Michael Friedrich tells a story about experienced pain points, wasted hours debugging and solving, and learning how a little help from AI makes DevSecOps workflows efficient again. Michael Friedrich is a Senior Developer Advocate at GitLab, focussing on DevSecOps, AI, Observability.
Efficient DevSecOps Workflows With a Little Help From AI

Sep 4, 2024 | infoq.com | Michael Friedrich |Aditya Kulkarni

AI is enhancing DevSecOps workflows by streamlining tasks, improving security, and optimizing operations. Utilize AI for generating code suggestions, automated tests, and insightful chat prompts to enhance productivity. Efficiently address security vulnerabilities with AI's explanations and proposed fixes. Use AI for root cause analysis, log summarization, and performance optimization in your operations.
What Is Policing For?

Aug 11, 2024 | thenation.com | Michael Friedrich

Can we count on you? In the coming election, the fate of our democracy and fundamental civil rights are on the ballot. The conservative architects of Project 2025 are scheming to institutionalize Donald Trump’s authoritarian vision across all levels of government if he should win. We’ve already seen events that fill us with both dread and cautious optimism—throughout it all, The Nation has been a bulwark against misinformation and an advocate for bold, principled perspectives.
[2407.20268] Utilizing Generative Adversarial Networks for Image Data Augmentation and Classification of Semiconductor Wafer Dicing Induced Defects

Jul 24, 2024 | arxiv.org | Tobias Schlosser |Michael Friedrich |Frederik Beuth |Danny Kowerko
Developing GitLab Duo: Use AI to remediate security vulnerabilities

Jul 15, 2024 | about.gitlab.com | Import Hashlib |Alana Bellucci |Michael Friedrich

You’ve just started into a new job, and on your first day, a large-scale production incident requires all hands on deck. There are a number of critical new vulnerabilities that require immediate attention, analysis, mitigation and remediation. Where do you start your investigation? Learn how GitLab Duo Vulnerability Explanation and GitLab Duo Vulnerability Resolution, along with our other AI-powered features, can help you begin addressing vulnerabilities in minutes.
Top tips for efficient AI-powered code suggestions with GitLab Duo

Jun 11, 2024 | about.gitlab.com | 'Application started |Michael Friedrich

GitLab Duo, our suite of AI-powered features, provides a unique opportunity to make your DevSecOps workflows more efficient. To make the most of GitLab Duo requires hands-on practice and learning in public together. This tutorial centers on GitLab Duo Code Suggestions and provides tips and tricks, learned best practices, and some hidden gems (including how to pair Code Suggestions with our other AI features for even more efficiency).
The Strange Villainization of the Walkable City

May 30, 2024 | flipboard.com | Michael Friedrich

What Apple isn’t telling you about the new iPad Pro’s OLED displayTandem OLED! Awesome, right? Wait … hold the phone. Tandem OLED? What in the what? Did Apple geniuses just smash together two OLED panels and, et …
Debugging in Produktion: Chaos Engineering mit eBPF

Apr 29, 2024 | heise.de | Michael Friedrich

Angesichts der zunehmenden Komplexität moderner Softwareentwicklungs- und Deployment-Infrastrukturen sind Entwicklerinnen und Entwickler auf Methoden und Werkzeuge angewiesen, die eine Automatisierung der Prozesse unterstützen und tiefere Einblicke in die Produktionsumgebung gewähren.
10 best practices for using AI-powered GitLab Duo Chat

Apr 2, 2024 | about.gitlab.com | Michael Friedrich |GitLab Duo examples

Getting into a conversation with AI can be challenging. What question do you start with? How do you frame the question? How much context is needed? Will the conversation provide the best and most efficient results? In this tutorial, we explore 10 tips and best practices to integrate GitLab Duo Chat into your AI-powered DevSecOps workflows and refine your prompts for the best results.