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Vetted Software: What It Means Now That AI Can Generate Code
AI has made code faster to produce, but dependable software still requires product judgement, verification and operational ownership.
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What Two AI CTO Seats Teach You About Building Software Customers Actually Use
AMPD and CarBuddy AI sit at different points in the customer journey, but they keep teaching the same lesson: the hard part is not…
Yet Another Day in the Life: When Three Problems Pretend to Be One
Sometimes the universe decides that one production incident isn’t enough. It needs to stack them like Russian dolls, each one revealing another surprise when…
A Day in the Life of a DevOps Engineer: How a Simple S3 Upload Took Down a Chatbot
In DevOps, the big outages rarely come from big failures. They come from the tiny things—small enough to slip past everyone’s radar, big enough…
10 Security Quick Wins for Startups (No Security Team Required)
10 security fixes taking 1-2 hours each that eliminate 80% of attack vectors. No security team required.
7 Ways Your CI/CD Pipeline is Wasting Money
Most teams waste £200+/month on CI/CD inefficiency. Here are the 7 most common sources of waste and how to fix them.
When Should You Invest in DevOps? (Revenue-Based Decision Framework)
Exact guidance on when to invest in infrastructure based on ARR. From £0 to £10M+, what you need at each stage.
The 10-Minute Infrastructure Scaling Health Check
Quick checklist to assess if your infrastructure is ready to scale from £1M to £10M ARR. Each "No" is a scaling bottleneck.
Why Your Deployments Take 45 Minutes (And How to Fix It)
6 deployment bottlenecks slowing your team down. Reduce deployment time from 71 minutes to 17 minutes with these optimizations.
5 Kubernetes Mistakes That Cost You £3,000+/Month
The most expensive K8s misconfigurations we see in every audit, and exactly how to fix them. Save £10k+/year.
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