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Quality Debt Is the New Technical Debt
For years, we talked about technical debt as something that quietly piles up while teams ship fast and skip cleanup. You take a shortcut now, but you pay for it later, usually at the worst possible time. A newer version of that problem is showing up in software delivery, driven by AI coding agents and […]
Oct 8, 2026 · 3 minAll articles by Alastair Cooke
Showing 1–3The Cloud Scout Model Delivers Reliability As An Embedded Capability
Organizations today face a structural problem that is slowing down their move to cloud-native maturity. They’ve adopted modern DevOps tools, yes. They’re running Kubernetes. They’re using sophisticated observability platforms. But the people-and-process piece often remains stuck in the traditional enterprise IT paradigm. The rift is simple: developers are tasked with delivering features, and operational staff […]
Operations, Code or Die
Panelists at the recent Cloud Field Day event anticipated during the Delegate Roundtable conversation that soon artificial intelligence (AI) would take over coding, making the primary skill, the ability to articulate requirements to AI.