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Digital Transformation

AI Is Getting Cheaper. Your AI Bill Is Going Up. Both Are True.

There are two clocks running in AI right now, and most finance teams are reading the wrong one. The first clock is the price of frontier intelligence. That is t…

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Jordan Saunders · Jun 17, 2026

Tech Leadership

The AI You See Online Isn't the AI That Ships

Your feed is full of two kinds of AI content. Agents that supposedly run entire companies while the founder sleeps, and screenshots of chatbots telling customer…

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Jordan Saunders · Jun 10, 2026

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…

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Aru Shanmugam · May 20, 2026

DevOps

How NextLink Labs Builds Production AWS Infrastructure

Overview Every new AWS engagement at NextLink Labs used to start from scratch. Engineers assembled infrastructure from memory, past projects, or whatever patter…

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Alex Podobnik · Apr 07, 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…

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Alex Podobnik · Mar 19, 2026

DevOps

Application Performance Monitoring: A Strategic Guide to APM Maturity

This guide is part of the NextLink DevSecOps Maturity Framework.

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Jordan Saunders · Mar 13, 2026

Digital Transformation

How to Drive Successful Technology Adoption Across Your Organization

Adopting new technology is often necessary for organizations looking to stay competitive, but it’s rarely a straightforward process. Despite the promise of inno…

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Jordan Saunders · Jun 16, 2025