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Can DevOps work in regulated industries?

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Matt Bailey, DevOps consultant and founder of Merge Ready. Matt shares lessons from helping large regulated organizations in finance, healthcare, and government transform their DevOps practices, and explains why DevOps is an outcome rather than a toolchain.

How a unified data model improves feature flag rollout decisions

Consolidation is reshaping the experimentation and feature management landscape. Tools are merging, and partnerships are being repackaged as platforms. But marketing a unified experience is not the same as building one. Right now, engineering leaders and product managers are reassessing whether the tools they depend on are built for the long term. It’s irrelevant which vendor has the most products.

I thought I invented this. Then I opened TikTok

The video was a product manager who claimed she worked at Netflix. (Her claim, not mine. I have no way of verifying it, and I can’t find the video now.) She was talking about how Netflix now requires every PM to vibe code a working prototype before presenting an idea to engineering. Show, don't spec. Build the thing first. I sat there for about ten seconds being mildly annoyed.

Uber blew its annual AI budget in 4 months

Uber burned through its entire annual AI budget in under 4 months. Here's what went wrong — and what every engineering org should be doing instead. The data: 80% more code is getting pushed with AI… but only 18% of AI-written code actually ships to production. That's not a productivity story. That's a spend problem. If you're scaling AI tooling without real-time monitoring and guardrails, you're Uber.

Konstruct product updates: Global resources, MCP support, and smarter permissions

May has been one of our busiest months yet for Konstruct. Across three releases, 0.5, 0.5.1, and 0.5.2, we've shipped some of the most requested platform-level changes since we launched: a unified model for sharing resources across organizations, native support for AI-driven workflows via MCP, a completely redesigned API keys experience, and a cleanup to how permissions actually work in multi-org environments. Let's walk through what shipped and why it matters.

The Compliance Gap in Test Data Management

Compliance Without Compromise: Test Data Management That Finally Fits You know you shouldn't have sensitive production data in test environments. But every time you look at fixing it, the options feel impossible: enterprise tools that cost six figures and take months to implement, or DIY scripts that sort of work until they don't. So, it stays on the backlog.

Secure execution: Agents in sandboxes with relaxAI

The hard part of deploying AI agents isn't the agent. It's the environment around it. As organisations move from AI experimentation into production, the question isn't just what agents can do; it's whether you can trust the environment they run in. Sandboxed execution gives you both the autonomy and the guardrails, keeping agents isolated, auditable, and under your control.

Safe Database Change at Scale with Flyway Enterprise | The Tony and Tonie show Ep45

AI-assisted coding may speed up delivery, but it can also increase the risk around database changes. Here’s how Flyway helps teams stay in control. Tony and Tonie discuss how Flyway Enterprise helps teams build control into the database change process: immediate change visibility, continuous risk reduction, and secure, traceable deployment from commit to production.

Digital sovereignty: Who's in control?

Digital sovereignty isn't a marketing buzzword. It's about jurisdiction, accountability, and operational certainty and it starts with where your data is hosted and how it's processed. Civo's UK sovereign cloud delivers public cloud, private cloud, and AI services, all hosted and operated exclusively within the United Kingdom under UK legal authority with no exposure to foreign control.

The importance of taking the initiative (a chat with Chris Yates) | The Simple Talk Podcast

Taking the initiative. Prioritizing relationships. Doing the work nobody else wants to do. These are just some of the elements that contributed to Chris Yates’ rise from a developer to a DBA and, eventually, a Senior Vice President. As he explains to Steve Jones, “you are the CEO of your own brand.” Also in the episode: discover Chris’ thoughts on AI, the importance of community, and the one thing he’d now do differently if he were to start from scratch.