Analyst Corner
Free Tiers and Open Source LLMs – Mana for Developers, Platform Engineers and QA
Mitch Ashley | | AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini 2.5, GitHub Actions, GitHub Agent, Google Cloud, Google Cloud AI Studio, GPT-5, gpt‑oss, Llama 3, microsoft, Mistral, Mixtral, open source LLM, OpenAI, VS Code, WindsurfDevelopment rarely follows one straight path. You sketch ideas, prototype, test, swap tools, iterate, and repeat. The increasing availability of free, limited-use AI tiers and locally run open-source AI LLMs is accelerating ...
We’re Not Being Replaced. We’re Inventing What Comes Next, Including Ourselves.
Mitch Ashley | | AI in software development, ai-native, software engineering, systems thinking, vibe codingAfter graduating with degrees in computer science and business in hand, I entered the software industry with the energy and optimism of someone ready to create great software. My first job wasn’t ...
Bringing DevOps to the Edge
With networks rapidly expanding through edge device proliferation, managing these devices is becoming more arduous. I had the opportunity to sit down with Sudhir Reddy, CTO of Esper, to discuss the growth ...
DevOps Must Learn From CrowdStrike’s Outage
The CrowdStrike outage on July 19, 2024, is a stark reminder of DevOps practices’ critical role in deploying updates to maintain the security and reliability of applications and systems. While the underlying ...
