Tag: platform engineering
GitHub’s August Outages Show Growth Is Outpacing Infrastructure
Tom Smith | | AI coding agents, capacity planning, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, developer infrastructure, developer productivity, devops, distributed systems, github, GitHub Actions, GitHub Copilot, GitHub outages, incident response, platform engineering, platform reliability, production resilience, retry storms, service availability, software delivery, Software Supply ChainGitHub's August 2026 report details five outages tied to Actions and Copilot growth outpacing infrastructure. Here's what platform teams should know ...
GitHub Puts Guardrails on Copilot’s Sandbox Inside JetBrains IDEs
Tom Smith | | AI agents, AI coding agents, AI Governance, Copilot sandbox, Developer Security, developer tools, Enterprise AI, filesystem controls, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Copilot JetBrains, IDE security, JetBrains, managed policies, MCP governance, network controls, OpenTelemetry, platform engineering, sandbox security, software developmentJetBrains IDEs are where a lot of enterprise backend work happens — Java, Kotlin, Spring, big monorepos with a lot to break. So when an AI coding agent starts running shell commands ...
Rust’s First Debugging Survey Shows Most Developers Skip the Debugger Entirely
Tom Smith | | async Rust, dbg macro, developer experience, developer tools, GDB, LLDB, platform engineering, print debugging, runtime debugging, Rust compiler, Rust debugger, Rust debugging, Rust developers, Rust tooling, software debugging, software development, systems programming, ustMost Rust developers don't use a debugger. That's the headline finding from the Rust compiler team's first dedicated debugging survey, and it's worth sitting with for a second. Rust has spent years ...
AI Has Turned Verification Into the New DevOps Bottleneck
Alan Shimel | | AI agents, AI code generation, AI code review, AI coding, AI evaluation, AI in DevOps, CI/CD, continuous delivery, developer experience, developer productivity, devops, devops automation, platform engineering, pull requests, Release engineering, software delivery, software pipelines, The Great UnificationThe next DevOps challenge is not generating more software. It is proving, quickly and repeatedly, that a growing volume of machine-generated change is fit to ship ...
DevOps in Financial Services: Moving Fast Without Losing Control
Prachi Tembhekar | | compliance, devops, financial services, observability, platform engineering, resilienceDevOps is often associated with speed: shorter release cycles, greater automation, faster feedback and increased developer autonomy. In financial services, however, speed is only one part of the equation. A platform supporting ...
GitHub’s New Copilot Feature Takes the Guesswork Out of Picking AI Models
Tom Smith | | agentic AI, AI agents, AI coding assistants, AI cost optimization, AI Governance, AI model routing, Code Generation, developer tools, devops, github, GitHub Copilot, model selection, multi-model orchestration, platform engineering, Project HydraFusion, software developmentGitHub’s Project HydraFusion brings multi-model orchestration to Copilot, automatically routing coding tasks across AI models to balance quality, cost and complexity ...
From the Horse’s Mouth: Anthropic Says AI Has Changed the SDLC
Alan Shimel | | agentic development, AI code review, AI coding agents, AI Governance, AI-assisted development, AI-native SDLC, Anthropic, autonomous agents, CI/CD, Claude Code, Code Generation, developer productivity, devops, internal developer platforms, platform engineering, software delivery, software development lifecycle, software engineering, software security, software testingAnthropic’s AI-native SDLC playbook argues that faster coding is shifting the bottleneck to planning, testing, governance, deployment and operations ...
GitOps in 2026: Why Pull Requests Are Taking Over Cloud Operations
For years, cloud infrastructure changes were mostly a mystery. An engineer would log into a dashboard, tweak a setting, run a few scripts, and that was it. Nobody worried until something broke ...
A Simple Website Summary Just Exposed the Limits of AI Coding Guardrails
Tom Smith | | agentic AI security, AI agent security, AI coding assistants, AI guardrails, AI security, Anthropic, Auto Mode, Claude Code, Claude Opus 5, devops security, indirect prompt injection, Johann Rehberger, network egress, platform engineering, prompt injection, Python module shadowing, RCE, remote code execution, sandboxing, struct.pyClaude Code’s Auto Mode was bypassed in an attack chain that turned a routine webpage summary into remote code execution, highlighting the limits of AI agent guardrails ...
GitHub Tightens Copilot’s Billing and Governance Rules Ahead of a Busy Fall
Tom Smith | | AI cost management, AI Governance, Balanced review, chat data retention, Copilot billing, Copilot Business, Copilot Chat, Copilot cloud agent, Copilot code review, Copilot Enterprise, developer tools, GitHub AI Credits, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Mobile, Lite review, platform engineering, token-based billing, usage based billingGitHub Copilot is tightening enterprise controls with upfront seat billing, longer chat retention and a Balanced code review default ...
The Missing Runtime for Long-Running AI Agents
Anuj Kapoor | | agent governance, agent orchestration, agent runtime, AI agents, AI observability, AI resiliency, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Durable Functions, devops, distributed systems, durable AI agents, durable workflows, Enterprise AI, human-in-the-loop, long-running AI agents, multi-agent systems, platform engineering, stateful AI, workflow orchestrationEnterprise AI agents need more than stronger models. They need durable execution environments that can coordinate multi-step workflows, survive failures, pause for human review and resume reliably after disconnects or delays. AI ...
AI Can Generate Your Infrastructure. Can Your CI/CD Pipeline Trust It?
Oreoluwa Omoike | | AI code vulnerabilities, AI coding assistants, AI-generated code, AI-generated infrastructure, Checkov, CI/CD security, Conftest, devsecops, IaC security, infrastructure as code, infrastructure security, Kubernetes security, OPA, platform engineering, policy as code, provenance tracking, secret scanning, secure CI/CD, Terraform security, tfsec, Trivy, TruffleHogAI-generated infrastructure code is exposing a growing security gap, pushing platform teams to add stronger automated gates, provenance tracking and human review before Terraform, Kubernetes and CI/CD changes reach production ...
