AI Engineering Platforms: Kubernetes, GPUs, Agents and Observability
As AI features and agents move into core products, organisations need a platform for them, just as they needed one for microservices. We out…
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21 articles tagged Software Engineering.
The New Developer Workflow: Humans, Coding Agents and CI/CD
In many teams, a typical day now involves dispatching tasks to coding agents, reviewing their pull requests and tuning the pipeline that che…
Agentic Software Engineering: Can AI Build and Maintain Software?
Coding agents can now complete many well-defined tasks end to end. The harder question for 2026 is whether they can maintain software over t…
AI-Native Software Engineering: What Actually Changes?
With background coding agents now available from GitHub, OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, some teams have agents opening a meaningful share of…
Coding Agents vs Copilots: The Next Generation of Developer Tools
In the space of two months, every major AI coding tool shipped an 'agent mode'. Instead of suggesting the next line, agents plan changes, ed…
MCP for Developers: Connecting AI to Real Software Systems
The Model Context Protocol gives AI assistants a standard way to use your tools and data. Three months after its release, clients and server…
From DevOps to AI-Augmented DevOps
LLMs are finding their way into every stage of the DevOps loop: explaining failed builds, drafting infrastructure code, summarising incident…
Platform Engineering at Scale: Kubernetes as an Internal Platform
Kubernetes turned ten this month. For large organisations its most important role is no longer running containers, but serving as the API on…
AI Coding Assistants: How LLMs Are Changing Software Development
AI coding tools have moved beyond autocomplete to chat, codebase-aware answers and, as of last week's Devin announcement, claims of autonomo…
Backstage and Internal Developer Portals Explained
Backstage, the developer portal framework Spotify open-sourced in 2020, has become the default starting point for internal developer portals…
The Rise of AI-Assisted Software Development
In twelve months, AI assistants have gone from a novelty to a daily tool for a large share of developers. Copilot is generally available, Ch…
Platform Engineering: Building an Internal Developer Platform
Deciding you need a platform is the easy part. This practical guide covers how to build an internal developer platform: the reference archit…
Rust: Why Developers Started Looking Beyond C/C++
Linux 6.1, released this week, is the first kernel with initial support for Rust. Google says Rust is now a significant share of new native…
Platform Engineering: The Evolution Beyond DevOps
'You build it, you run it' made teams faster, until every team had to be expert in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI, observability and security. Pl…
WebAssembly: Is the Browser No Longer Its Limit?
WebAssembly started as a way to run near-native code in the browser, and now powers apps like Figma and the web version of Photoshop. With W…
Observability: Why Logs and Metrics Aren't Enough Anymore
Dashboards and log searches work well when you know which questions to ask. In distributed systems, the hardest incidents are the ones nobod…
Kubernetes for Developers: What You Actually Need to Know
You do not need to become a cluster administrator to ship software on Kubernetes, but you do need to understand a handful of concepts that d…
GitOps: The Next Evolution of DevOps
GitOps makes a Git repository the single source of truth for what should be running, with an agent in the cluster continuously pulling and r…
Service Mesh Explained: Solving the Microservices Networking Problem
Once a system has dozens of microservices, every team ends up re-implementing retries, timeouts, encryption and metrics. A service mesh move…
Kubernetes: Why Containers Changed Software Deployment
Six years after Google open-sourced it, Kubernetes has become the default platform for running containers in production. We explain what pro…
Microservices vs Monoliths: What Should You Actually Build?
Microservices became the default answer to 'how should we build this?' without most teams asking whether they had the problems microservices…