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Terraform State Management at Scale: The Environment Isolation Problem
Remote backends are necessary, but they do not solve state topology. Once you scale to multiple environments and dozens of services, the real problem is environment isolation, blast radius, and operational guardrails. This guide breaks down workspaces vs directories vs Terragrunt, the failure modes at scale, and a decision framework that actually works.
You Ship Faster with AI. You Understand Less. Welcome to Cognitive Debt.
AI coding agents write code faster than ever. But a growing body of research shows developers are losing comprehension of their own codebases. Margaret-Anne Storey calls it "cognitive debt." The METR study found AI makes experienced developers 19% slower. Stack Overflow's trust numbers are dropping. Here's what cognitive debt is, why it matters, and the five patterns to prevent it.
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.
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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.
DevSecOps for the Agent Era: The Security Gap Nobody's Talking About
Three CVE vulnerabilities hit Anthropic's MCP Git server. Docker acquired MCP Defender for runtime agent security. OWASP published a dedicated Top 10 for Agentic Applications. AI agents are shipping to production — but the security model hasn't caught up. Here's the agent security playbook.
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