Expert perspectives on DevOps,
AI & modern engineering

Digital Transformation

Three Doors, Three Lanes: A 2026 Gen AI Adoption Playbook

About a year and a half ago, I wrote a LinkedIn post called "Gen AI adoption blues". The argument was that the conversation about generative AI was running ahea…

Read more →

Aru Shanmugam · May 20, 2026

DevOps

Writing a GitLab Pipeline with Claude Code

I've been using Claude Code for our internal GitLab pipelines for a while now and wanted to write up what the workflow actually looks like in practice. The serv…

Read more →

Alex Podobnik · Apr 28, 2026

DevOps

Importing Existing Infrastructure into Terraform with Claude Code

Every consulting engagement has the same moment. The client walks you through their AWS account and at some point says "yeah, someone set that up manually a whi…

Read more →

Alex Podobnik · Apr 24, 2026

DevOps

How to Generate Terraform Modules with Claude

Most LLM-generated Terraform is bad. You ask for a module, you get something that looks right, and then terraform validate lights up with errors. Provider block…

Read more →

Alex Podobnik · Apr 24, 2026

Custom Software Development

How To Connect Claude Code to Your Rails Models with MCP Servers

If you're using Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI coding assistant), you've probably hit this wall: your AI pair-programmer can read your code, run your tests, and e…

Read more →

Colin Soleim · Apr 22, 2026

Security

Your Software Has Vulnerabilities. Here’s How We Use Claude to Find Them.

Every codebase has vulnerabilities, and it is a mathematical certainty. The average commercial software application contains between 20 and 30 open-source depen…

Read more →

Travis Burmaster · Apr 21, 2026

DevOps

Claude Code Configurations Every Rails Engineer Should Use

If you've tried Claude Code on a large Rails codebase, you've probably noticed the gap between the demos and reality. The demos show Claude refactoring a 50-lin…

Read more →

Colin Soleim · Apr 15, 2026

Cloud

How We Built a Weekly AWS Cost Digest Powered by AI

Stop reading raw Cost Explorer graphs. Let Claude write your FinOps briefing. The Problem With AWS Cost Explorery Every Monday morning, someone on your team ope…

Read more →

Alex Podobnik · Mar 19, 2026

Custom Software Development

Setting Up Your Ruby on Rails Monolith for AI Development

Introduction The AI revolution has arrived, and it's transforming how developers work with codebases. For teams maintaining large Rails monoliths with millions …

Read more →

Colin Soleim · Feb 19, 2026

AI

Your Engineers Are Already Running AI Agents. Do You Know Which Ones?

There's a big problem happening with companies adopting AI right now. They don't understand the full landscape of what tools are available or even what tools ha…

Read more →

Jordan Saunders · Feb 17, 2026

AI

AI Overconfidence: Smarter Than Us or Just More Convincing?

The Illusion of AI Superiority In 2018, an AI-powered hiring tool at a major tech company was designed to find the best job candidates. The problem? It systemat…

Read more →

Jeremy Dodson · Mar 17, 2025

Cybersecurity

Navigating DeepSeek: Key Concerns for U.S. Companies

For those under a rock, here’s a quick TL;DR timeline of DeepSeek’s rise: 2023: DeepSeek emerges as a Chinese AI startup, funded by the High-Flyer hedge fund. D…

Read more →

Jeremy Dodson · Feb 28, 2025