The recent news of Uber blowing their yearly AI budget in a quarter is no surprise, even if the press makes it sound like it...

The next logical step in Agentic Engineering happens when teams move from individual developer augmentation to agentic delegation. That’s where two key patterns start emerging:...

I am on the way to DDD North where I am going to talk about Agentic Engineering, and one of the key aspects of my...

I answer this question at least once a week so I will use this as a more permanent signpost 🙂

I am sure you are familiar with the fact GitHub Copilot offers you an incredible amount of models to choose from:

Earlier this week, Anthropic shared details about how a hacking group used Claude for a highly sophisticated espionage campaign against a number of organisations.

How do you really harness GenAI in an engineering organisation?

So… your systems went down yesterday because of the outage on the US-East-1 region. Global impact, massive problem, I agree.

I talked about Custom Instructions in the past, but can we go further?

Vibe coding is great. There, I said it.

A simple yet underrated way of accelerating standardisation in an enterprise engineering platform is to build custom Copilot instructions to bundle in your repositories.

The absolute number one request I get from clients rolling out GenAI assistance to their developers is:

2025 is all about AI with agents, and as always developers are at the forefront. There are layers to it though, and I keep getting...

The GitHub ecosystem keeps growing and GitHub Copilot has got a new, preview feature… that looks like a product. Copilot Spaces.

I just noticed it today, it might have been around for a while… however if you are an Azure DevOps Administrator you will like this....

I lost count of how many people come to me asking for AI features in Azure DevOps, and then seeing being surprised when I tell...

Vibe coding. Many people are talking about it, some are practicing it avidly, some are wondering how to actually do it. This post is for...

Someone asked me the other day:

Speaking with people the other day I realised so many don’t know about it!

No matter how many times I do that, I keep creating new repos and adding a .gitignore file afterwards - so I need to enforce...

I entertain this question at least once a week so let’s put a reference answer out once and for all 😀

I just got back from Bucharest, where one of my sessions at GoTech.World was about what I believe is going to happen to developers in...

AI assistance for developers is not just for executing well-defined tasks - you can get a lot of value out of tools like Copilot by...

Supercharging GitHub Copilot Copilot here, Copilot there… yes, GitHub (and others!) Copilot is brilliant, but it only acts as a sidecar support to the developer...

GitHub Copilot is amazing… but you can’t just roll it out all of a sudden with no planin a large engineering organisation!

Over the course of my career I spent a lot of time optimising and automating Build Farms, since Team Foundation Server 2008. I remember the...

Something I see far too often is a simple yet foundational mistake: chasing innovation at all costs, for the sake of it, rather than thinking...

Large yet quiet update a couple of months ago in Azure DevOps! One of the most requested features finally hit availability - retry logic in...

Over the past few months a number of good updates were released on GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps, I felt they went a touch...

Baffling conversation today, and a bit of a blast from the past. Mega-massive client has issues with their immutable environments - technical and regulatory. The...

More a thought rather than anything else… however, if you are still trying to unnecessarily restrict your developers, think again.

Very interesting question the other day:

It’s a topic that comes up fairly frequently with many of my clients - why are redeployments unexpectedly difficult?

I had this in draft for a very long time, especially after a conversation with one of my clients… did you ever notice how the...

Back on the topic of inner source, we now need to look at how we define success. Measurement and the right metrics will tell you...

Are you doing anything like this?

This is literally the simplest possible thing, however… I wanted a workflow to be triggered only on successful execution of another workflow in GitHub Actions....

Last Thursday I was greeted with the excellent news of my 14th year as a Microsoft MVP. Thinking about it… 14 years is a long,...

It’s not really news, however…you can now add App Registrations and Managed Identities as users in Azure DevOps. They will cost you a licence, however...

Driving back home tonight I thought it was about time I continued my series on Inner Source… now time to talk about testing. It is...

Recently I’ve been dabbling with Azure App Configuration - a very nice technology if you ask me, which allows you to build your applications or...

Great news at Ignite in the past few days. There is one I am particularly close to: Defender for DevOps. There are a number of...

Finally the most important topic to cover: how to build a sustainable contribution model? Inner Source is not just some code dropped somewhere so that...

I wanted to talk about the contribution model first, however I felt it would be important to think about the users first. So after talking...

I want to talk about a project that took a year and a half to get to full speed, now bringing an incredible amount of...

If you use GitHub you are surely used to this: Nowadays we are starting to take supply chain management for granted. Unfortunately it is a...

So… identities. A cornerstone of any cloud platform and essential in a DevOps world. However I end up talking about these on a daily basis...

This was a fairly unknown feature, however it’s a very important one when it comes to security in a large-scale Azure DevOps deployment… As I...

I introduced Inner Source to my current client roughly 18 months ago. It was a big change for a massive 100,000 employees organisation, used to...

An interesting conversation came up a few weeks ago at a conference panel: there is definitely one strong misconception when it comes to Software Engineering,...

For the past fifteen years I’ve been blogging with regularity, at least once a month. This blog starts with entries from 2012, however I’ve been...

The point of this post is not to do a walkthrough of the new GitHub Issues experience (it’s awesome by the way!), but rather to...

Automations are the cornerstone of DevOps, and they allow for a substantial increase in speed and quality.

Working for a client that does large scale enterprise development and Inner Source means we run into this fairly often with new projects consuming different...

Sometimes it happens - you pushed a commit to a remote repository and you need to remove it, in a rush and without changing the...

I know - it’s 2021 and Agile methodologies should be used as standard. They are, for the most part, but every now and then I...

As part of a project I am working on we have a strong usage of Pipelines templates, and the consumption chain is nested across multiple...

Small confession to make: I don’t get excited by pure technology anymore.

Eventually, I did it - I tried an end-to-end CI/CD workflow exclusively on GitHub Actions. Talking about details, I moved my end-to-end demo of an...

New year, first new post. This is a reflection I’ve been mumbling over for the past few months.