Edge AI Without the Trade‑offs: A Practical Multi‑Cloud Pattern Using Azure Arc Edge RAG and Google Distributed Cloud
Hybrid and multi-cloud used to be about “where to run VMs.” In 2025, it’s increasingly about “where to run AI inference and retrieval.” Two announcements this year make that clear:...
A GitOps Blueprint to Unite DevOps and MLOps for LLM and ML Services
If your software delivery rhythm feels like two bands playing different tempos—one for app code (DevOps) and one for models (MLOps)—you’re not alone. The good news: a handful of recent...
Automating Cloud Ops Toil with Azure Copilot: Four Workflows You Can Ship This Week
Reducing operational toil is about eliminating the repetitive, low‑value tasks that keep engineers busy and burn out on‑call teams. The last 12 months have brought a wave of practical, console‑integrated...
Sidecars, Be Gone: How Sidecarless Mesh and the Gateway API Are Taming Microservice Sprawl
Modern microservices feel like running a festival across dozens of stages: every act needs power, sound checks, and a clean handoff to the next performer. Service meshes promised to be...
Scorecards and Golden Paths: What Backstage’s New Backend Unlocks for Your Internal Developer Platform
Platform engineering is moving past “a portal with links” into something opinionated, measurable, and safe-by-default. The shift is visible in two converging trends: IDPs are standardizing how software gets built...
CrowdStrike’s Global Outage: A Maturity Stress Test for Incident Response and Postmortem Culture
When blue screens start showing up on airport kiosks and hospital desktops, you learn a lot about your incident playbook—fast. On July 19, a routine content update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon...
PCI DSS v4.x Future‑Dated Requirements Are Now In Force: Turn Compliance Into Policy‑as‑Code
If your organization touches card data, 2025 isn’t “next year’s” problem anymore. On March 31, 2025, the bulk of PCI DSS v4.x’s future‑dated controls moved from “best practice” to “required.”...
America’s Chip Boom Has a Technician Problem — and Earn‑and‑Learn Training Is the Fastest Fix
If you’ve glanced at tech headlines lately, you’ve seen a familiar refrain: the U.S. is building fabs at record pace, but we don’t have enough people to run them. Arizona...