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MCP Is the USB-C of DevOps: The Governance Playbook Teams Need Before the First "Deploy Staging" Prompt

MCP has crossed from demo protocol to real platform plumbing for DevOps workflows, but the blocker is not model quality. It is governance: transport choices, identity, approval gates, server trust, auditability, and rollout discipline. This guide separates hype from what is actually production-relevant in Q1 2026.

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Claude Code Hit $2.5B. Amazon Engineers Can't Use It. Welcome to AI Agent Lock-In.

Claude Code just hit a $2.5 billion run-rate — doubled since January 1st. Yet 1,500 Amazon engineers are fighting for permission to use it, steered toward AWS Kiro instead. This is vendor lock-in repackaged for the AI agent era. Platform-native vs platform-agnostic is the new architectural fault line.

GitHub Agentic Workflows: The Decision Framework Nobody's Talking About

Everyone's excited about AI in CI/CD. Nobody's asking when to use it vs when not to. GitHub Agentic Workflows just entered technical preview — the architecture is solid. But the real decision isn't which agent to pick. It's when to use agentic workflows vs deterministic ones. Here's the decision framework, the adoption pattern, and the three questions to answer before you deploy.

GitHub Agentic Workflows: "Continuous AI" Enters the CI/CD Loop

GitHub launched Agentic Workflows in technical preview — a Markdown + YAML frontmatter model that compiles to hardened GitHub Actions lock files for AI-driven repository automation. Here's how it works, where the guardrails are, and how to adopt it safely.

The Multi-Model Copilot Era Is Here — And It Changes Your Architecture

Microsoft quietly transformed Copilot from an OpenAI product into a model orchestration layer. Claude is now enabled by default. MAI frontier models ship this year. OpenAI signed a $300B deal with Oracle. Here's what the orchestration era means for your architecture, FinOps, and platform strategy.