Technology
What Is Context Engineering and How to Apply It in Real Systems
An AI code assistant generates a function to handle user uploads. The code looks correct, compiles, and passes all tests.…
Insights
Articles about code review, AI, and engineering productivity
Leadership
Context Engineering vs Prompt Engineering: the shift in how we build AI systems.
You receive a pull request coming from an AI. The code looks clean, follows the prompt, and all unit tests…
Small pull requests are a risk control, p95 shows why
People talk about pull request size like it’s a style preference. I used to think the same, until I put…
Leadership
Scaling DevOps Culture: From Improvised Scripts to Platform Engineering
The collection of scripts, manual configurations, and unwritten rules that helped your company get started will eventually begin to hold…
Code Review
AI-Generated Code Requires a Different Code Review Process
Code review for AI-generated code is different. A pull request can look syntactically perfect, pass all local tests, and still…
Leadership
How to Manage Dependencies and Packages in Large-Scale Projects
When a single dependency update in one service causes a runtime failure in another, that is not an accident. It…
Leadership
How to implement DevOps without creating more complexity
Most large DevOps projects fail to deliver results. They usually start with a new tool or with a top-down directive…
DevEx
Platform Engineering Best Practices for Building Internal Platforms That Scale
Many companies see the cost of their internal developer platform skyrocket. The goal of Platform Engineering is to unify tools…
Leadership
How to scale DevOps in large enterprises
The conversation about how to scale DevOps in a large company always gets stuck on tools. We argue about Jenkins…