Techstrong Council
IaC Isn’t Dying. AI Makes it More Important
AI-generated infrastructure code is arriving faster than most organizations can absorb it. The organizations that invested in platform quality first are the ones pulling ahead. Every few years, someone declares that Infrastructure ...
AI Is Here to Stay. The Real Challenge Is Operating It Securely
AI-generated code is already in production. Whether we are comfortable with that or not is beside the point. In the OpenStack project, which I have helped steward for more than 15 years, ...
The Validation Gap Is Costing You More Than You Think
Our latest State of Software Delivery report analyzed more than 28 million CI workflows and found a pattern that should give engineering leaders pause. Average throughput grew 59% year over year. Main ...
AI Is Changing How We Write Infrastructure, But It’s Not Solving How We Control It
Over the past year, AI has fundamentally changed how software is written. Infrastructure code is no exception. Tasks that once required deep familiarity with tools, syntax, and workflows can now be handled ...
Iceberg Won the Format War — Now Comes the Hard Part
Apache Iceberg has effectively won the open table format conversation. AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Snowflake, Databricks -- every major platform has thrown its weight behind it. If you work in data engineering ...
Why the Next Wave of Infrastructure Automation Requires a Different Kind of Intelligence
Every decade or so, something fundamental shifts in how we think about infrastructure. Not an upgrade, a rethinking. Virtualization changed what infrastructure was. The cloud changed where it lived. Infrastructure as Code ...
Bridging the Dev–Security Gap With Smarter Authorization
Software teams have always lived with a built-in tension – developers push to ship fast, while security teams pump the brakes to assess risk. Now, with AI flooding the enterprise, that friction ...
The Future of Infrastructure Automation in the Age of Autonomous Agents
For more than a decade, the evolution of infrastructure automation has followed a clear trajectory. Organizations have invested in workflows, pipelines, controllers, and compliance engines because the market demanded stronger guarantees around ...
ClickOps, IaC and the Excluded Avocado Middle
Let’s start with a confession: I think Infrastructure-as-Code solves a lot of problems. Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, all of it. IaC changed how we work. It gave us version control, audit trails, repeatability, ...
Learning From the Past: What Automation Mistakes Can Teach Us About AI
Across industries, organizations are rushing to embed AI into their operations. In fact, 84% of organizations are looking to add more AI capabilities within the next three years. From customer service bots ...
Securing the AI Era: How Development, Security, and Compliance Must Evolve
The Code Boom and Its Paradox We are witnessing an unprecedented shift in how software is built. With the rise of AI copilots, automated agents, and low-code platforms, code is being produced ...
Infrastructure as Code, Security Blind Spots, and the Messy Reality of DevOps
I’ve spent most of my career in infrastructure and reliability engineering, from years as an SRE at Google to leading teams at Facebook and now building Spacelift. Along the way, I’ve watched ...
