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Rethinking QA: From DevOps to Platform Engineering and SRE

The Wake-Up Call The software development landscape is undergoing a significant transformation, challenging traditional roles and requiring new ski...
Posted on 19 December 2025 | 7:00 pm

Agile Manifesto: The Reformation That Became the Church

TL, DR: The Reformation That Became the Church The Agile Manifesto followed Luther’s Reformation arc: radical simplicity hardened into scaling fram...
Posted on 18 December 2025 | 2:00 pm

Agile Is Dead, Long Live Agility

TL; DR: Why the Brand Failed While the Ideas Won Your LinkedIn feed is full of it: Agile is dead. They’re right. And, at the same time, they’re ent...
Posted on 9 December 2025 | 3:00 pm

From Mechanical Ceremonies to Agile Conversations

TL; DR: Mechanical Ceremonies to Meaningful Events Your Agile events aren’t failing because people lack training. They’re failing because your orga...
Posted on 2 December 2025 | 2:00 pm

AI SDLC Transformation, Part 1: Where to Start?

Most engineering leaders today feel the same tension: everyone talks about “AI in software delivery,” but few know where to start. Should you launc...
Posted on 13 November 2025 | 6:00 pm

Facilitate AI-Human Architectural Thinking

Architectural thinking or modeling will only be effective when it involves a landscape, decisional, and structural view. People talk a lot about sy...
Posted on 12 November 2025 | 8:00 pm

Why Agility Matters

TL; DR: Why Agility Matters What if your organization’s “Agility” dysfunction isn’t an implementation problem but a missing-conditions problem that...
Posted on 11 November 2025 | 4:00 pm

How Does a Scrum Master Improve the Productivity of the Development Team?

The role of a Scrum Master is to establish Scrum, and the Scrum Master is accountable for the Scrum Team’s effectiveness. Thus, it is quite temptin...
Posted on 7 November 2025 | 5:00 pm

AI Code Generation: The Productivity Paradox in Software Development

Measuring and improving developer productivity has long been a complex and contentious topic in software engineering. With the rapid rise of AI acr...
Posted on 5 November 2025 | 5:00 pm

A Developer’s Experience of Onboarding to a Platform

After years of managing cloud services in a traditional setting — manually provisioning clusters, setting up networks, managing credentials, and na...
Posted on 31 October 2025 | 4:00 pm

Evolving Golden Paths: Upgrades Without Disruption

The platform team had done it again — a new version of the golden path was ready. Cleaner templates, better guardrails, smoother CI/CD. But as soon...
Posted on 23 October 2025 | 7:00 pm

Applying Domain-Driven Design With Enterprise Java: A Behavior-Driven Approach

When it comes to software development, one of the biggest mistakes is delivering precisely what the client wants. While this may sound cliché, the ...
Posted on 23 October 2025 | 1:00 pm

The Dangerous Middle: Agile Roles That AI Will Erode First

TL; DR: Dangerous Middle and the Future of Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches  AI is changing product and tech work. Peter Yang, a renowned product le...
Posted on 21 October 2025 | 1:00 pm

DevEx Ambient Agent With Advanced Knowledge Graph

As developers, we all face friction points throughout the day — from repetitive tasks to sifting through documentation or getting stuck on a challe...
Posted on 17 October 2025 | 11:00 am

Why Domain-Driven Design Is Still Essential in Modern Software Development

There’s no doubt that software has become the invisible infrastructure of our modern world. Over a decade ago, Forbes published a prophetic article...
Posted on 15 October 2025 | 5:00 pm

Golden Paths in IDPs: From Developer Chaos to Clarity

A new team spins up a service. They wire together a CI pipeline, stitch in some Terraform for infrastructure, and maybe — remember to add monitorin...
Posted on 8 October 2025 | 1:00 pm

The Agile AI Manifesto

TL;DR: The Agile Manifesto Predicted AI The Agile world is splitting into two camps: Those convinced AI will automate practitioners out of existenc...
Posted on 8 October 2025 | 11:00 am

Dynamization of Static Data Structures

Most of us in software engineering have been there. You design a static data structure that supports blazing-fast queries for counting elements, se...
Posted on 7 October 2025 | 3:00 pm

Bounded Rationality: Why Time-Boxed Decisions Keep Agile Teams Moving

In Agile projects, decisions come fast and often: Which story should we pull next? Is this bug critical enough to stop the sprint? Do we ship t...
Posted on 1 October 2025 | 7:00 pm

AI Risks in Product

TL; DR: AI Risks — It’s A Trap! AI is tremendously helpful in the hands of a skilled operator. It can accelerate research, generate insights, and s...
Posted on 30 September 2025 | 11:00 am