Patterns of validation
This post covers some techniques to get agents to validate their work. We’ll cover why this is important, a variety of types of checks you can employ, and mechanisms you can use to enforce them.
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10 Enterprise AI Infrastructure Voices Worth Following
Enterprise AI has crossed an inflection point. The model problem is largely covered. What remains unsolved is the operational impact: how to run AI inference and agentic processes continuously, reliably, and at a cost that doesn’t cancel out the value. Most enterprises are discovering this the hard way. GPU utilization dashboards show 80%. Actual compute efficiency is half that. Token demand is compounding at 200-500% annually as agents multiply every action into dozens of model calls.
How to ship a POC in an afternoon: a Claude Code and Upsun walkthrough for product and product marketing
I have an Upsun project that's nothing but proofs of concept. It's a dashboard, basically. Each POC gets its own tile. Click in, and you land on a page with three tabs. The first tab is a written explanation of what the POC argues. The second tab is the POC itself, with a built-in demo that automates a walkthrough of the feature so the recipient can watch it run without me on the call.
Managed accounts for MSPs, plus 45-day certificates you can use today
Two things shipped this week. One is for the MSPs who manage certificates on behalf of other companies. The other lets you run the shorter 45-day renewal cycle today.
Running AI at Enterprise Scale w/ Anthropic, Descope, Port, Rootly and Twingate
The debate about whether AI can write production code is over. Companies are handing work to fleets of agents, and for many, they write most of the code that ships to production. The next challenge is everything that happens once an entire engineering organization runs this way, at full speed. Teams that generate code 10x faster still review it at human speed, and that mismatch is now the constraint. Code ownership is also becoming an issue, as developers learn to trust agentic processes a little too much. When an agent breaks production, who is responsible?
RISC-V profiles - why is RVA23 significant?
One of the important offerings of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is the ability to customize and extend the base instruction set. An initial reaction to hearing this is often to worry about software portability and compatibility, since if every RISC-V CPU offers a slightly different set of instructions, software won’t be portable.
What is Azure Cost Management? Complete Beginner's Guide (2026)
What is Azure Cost Management and how can it help you control cloud spending? In this complete beginner's guide, Michael Stephenson explains the fundamentals of Azure Cost Management and walks through the core features available in Azure. You'll learn how Azure organizes billing accounts, subscriptions, resource groups, and management groups, and how these structures affect cost tracking and reporting.
Announcing HAProxy 3.4
HAProxy 3.4 is a milestone release that significantly advances HAProxy’s legendary flexibility, performance, security, reliability, and observability. Dynamic backend management simplifies integration with modern architectures, memory efficiency improves across a broader range of workloads, native cryptographic operations at the proxy layer open new possibilities for API security architectures, and OpenTelemetry support makes HAProxy a first-class participant in distributed tracing pipelines.
21 AI concepts every beginner should know before their first interview
If you’re prepping for your first AI or MLOps interview, the hardest part usually isn’t always the hands-on element. For me, it’s the vocabulary. Interviewers sometimes lob single-word concepts at you (“what’s quantization?”) and watch how far you can carry the thread. The questions sound clear-cut, but each one is really a doorway into a bigger topic, and the interviewer is judging how cleanly you walk through it.
The Bug Hiding in Your Production Traffic
Your logs showed 500 errors. The traces showed the dependency graph. Neither showed the actual bug, a DEL control character getting appended to the query string. This is how I found it. In this video I walk through Speedscale BYOC (bring your own cloud): capture real production traffic, store it in your own Elasticsearch cluster inside your VPC, pull it down locally with a single script, and reproduce the exact bug using proxymock. The data never leaves your environment.