Two startups at global scale without DevOps (opens in new tab)

**Published:** March 18, 2026 | **Authors:** Ben Sabic, Nonny Bell | **Category:** Customer stories --- Leonardo.AI processes more than 4.5 million images every day across cities worldwide, and Relevance AI's agents run autonomously across time zones, touching Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, and dozens of other systems without pause. Neither company has a dedicated DevOps team. That's not an oversight. It's an operational model. The startup ecosystem in APAC is a clear example of why this mod...