The cloud native era killed VMware's lock-in. Here's what to run instead.
If you're evaluating alternatives to VMware, you'll find no shortage of content telling you which hypervisor to pick or how the licensing compares. Wh …
Why we stopped gatekeeping our personal development budget
This year I'm spending my personal development budget on Thai lessons, therapy, and a scooter safety course. I'm not sure all three of those would hav …
The best AI agent is the one that disappears
Here's something most AI vendors won't tell you: the goal shouldn't be to run more AI. It should be to run less — eventually. I know that sounds stran …
AI agents that run where your data lives
There's a pattern I keep seeing in enterprise AI conversations. Someone shows an impressive demo — an agent that analyzes logs, responds to incidents, …
The software inflection point: agents, OSS, and InnerSource
Over the past year, agentic development has gone from novelty to the way an increasing number of serious teams actually ship code. Naval Ravikant decl …
Donating your project to a foundation: what it actually means for risk and compliance
We don't write about the CRA because we have it figured out. We write because we're in the middle of it, and writing is how we think. What we know is …
Your platform team can't build great templates while running around fixing clusters
Most platform teams know exactly what they should be building: the templates and self-service workflows that let developers go from idea to running se …
You're probably still paying for a VMware licence you no longer need
For years, VMware was the obvious answer. You needed to run workloads, you needed isolation, you needed enterprise support, and VMware delivered all o …
Kubernetes at the Edge: how KubeEdge brings cloud native orchestration to IoT and beyond
This post is based on a talk given by Antonia von den Driesch and Xavier Avrillier at KCD Warsaw 2025. Edge computing has quietly become one of the mo …
