AI workloads challenge the cattle model
AI workloads break the “cattle” approach to infrastructure management. Generic abstractions that worked for backend services are too limited, and treating six-figure hardware as disposable, undifferentiated cattle seems unacceptable.
AI-generated code will choke delivery pipelines
Everyone is focused on the impact of AI on the production of code. But code isn’t just produced, it has to be consumed: built, packaged, tested, distributed, deployed, operated. Without a realistic plan to scale delivery pipelines, we’re asking for trouble.
Why aren't we all serverless yet?
The median product engineer should reason about applications as composites of high-level, functional Lego blocks where technical low-level details are