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Featured image of post Feature Flags Done Right: A Pattern for Safer Production Deployments
Platform Engineering DevOps

Feature Flags Done Right: A Pattern for Safer Production Deployments

How to move from 'one-off' flags to a solid feature management framework that actually reduces deployment risk in large organizations.

Jul 10, 2025
3 minute read
Featured image of post Beyond CI/CD: Why AI Agents Are the Next Layer of Software Delivery
Agentic AI DevOps

Beyond CI/CD: Why AI Agents Are the Next Layer of Software Delivery

Traditional CI/CD is about deterministic pipelines. The next layer is agentic: handling the non-deterministic coordination that actually slows down engineering teams.

Jun 18, 2025
3 minute read
Featured image of post Teaching Kids to Code With Bayesian Knowledge Tracing: Why I Built FireFly
Build in Public AI Education

Teaching Kids to Code With Bayesian Knowledge Tracing: Why I Built FireFly

Why I built FireFly around mastery, not streaks: using Bayesian Knowledge Tracing, visual execution, and age-adaptive tutoring to help kids actually understand code.

May 08, 2025
5 minute read
Featured image of post The DORA Report Was Right: IDPs Improve Team Productivity by 10% — Here's How I've Seen It
Platform Engineering Developer Experience

The DORA Report Was Right: IDPs Improve Team Productivity by 10% — Here's How I've Seen It

Why the DORA platform engineering findings rang true to me, and what I have learned from building delivery standards, templates, and paved roads that actually help teams move faster.

Apr 10, 2025
5 minute read
Featured image of post MCP in Practice: What Anthropic's Model Context Protocol Actually Means for Developers
Agentic AI Platform Engineering

MCP in Practice: What Anthropic's Model Context Protocol Actually Means for Developers

Why MCP matters in practice: not as another AI buzzword, but as a clean protocol for connecting models to real tools, systems, and delivery workflows.

Mar 20, 2025
4 minute read
Featured image of post Why I Started Building My Own DevOps Platform (And What I Learned)
Build in Public Platform Engineering DevOps

Why I Started Building My Own DevOps Platform (And What I Learned)

Why I started building CueMarshal: not to replace engineers, but to turn Git, reviews, and automation into a more practical coordination layer for software delivery.

Feb 15, 2025
6 minute read
Featured image of post Conditionally Deploying Resources in Azure App Configuration Using Deployment Scripts
Azure DevOps Infrastructure as Code

Conditionally Deploying Resources in Azure App Configuration Using Deployment Scripts

How I used Azure deployment scripts and Bicep to dynamically query existing labels and keys in Azure App Configuration and conditionally deploy only what is missing.

Jan 10, 2025
6 minute read
Featured image of post Automating Notifications in Azure Devops Using Power Automate
Azure Automation DevOps

Automating Notifications in Azure Devops Using Power Automate

Learn how to automate notifications for work item updates in Azure DevOps using Power Automate. This step-by-step guide covers everything from setting up the trigger to handling work item state changes with expressions.

Oct 08, 2024
6 minute read
Featured image of post Automating OWASP Top Ten Scan Reports in Azure DevOps
DevOps DevSecOps Security Automation

Automating OWASP Top Ten Scan Reports in Azure DevOps

How I automated OWASP ZAP scans in Azure DevOps release pipelines: running the scanner, converting findings to NUnit format, and surfacing vulnerabilities as test results.

Sep 05, 2024
9 minute read
Featured image of post How to Enable VM Insights on an Azure Virtual Machine Using Bicep
Azure DevOps Cloud Infrastructure

How to Enable VM Insights on an Azure Virtual Machine Using Bicep

A step-by-step guide to enabling VM Insights on Azure Virtual Machines using a Bicep module to automate diagnostics and telemetry collection.

Jun 27, 2024
3 minute read
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