This is the primary effect AI is having. It's lowering the quality bar dramatically and rapidly. The output over outcomes party has won the election. Now we have to suffer the policies that were so obviously coming.

The persistent 1:10:100 ratio of good, competent and "meh" developers suggests that teams weighted toward that 1% are highly improbable. And yet I've seen more than a few. The trick is to hire from inside the bubble. codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/t...

Why can't I open this link in a new tab? Of course, the question isn't valid. Because, of course, it's not a link. In an age of "you must be productive" we sure spend a lot of time talking about AI and not much talking about ACTUALLY GETTING ANYTHING DONE. Here's the #HTML

Meanwhile in DevOps No.49 Cloud cost control. #DevOps #Cloud #Cost

This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up with the ability to type 100x faster. You take the red pill, you get the wonder and chaos of all those technical and cultural capabilities you really need to build great software.

A colleague just shared their screen and they had 45,000 unread emails. I want to be more like them, and less like inbox zero.

Bryan Ross tackles the goal conflict at the heart of platform problems in this post on golden paths (one size does not fit all!) newsletter.bryanross... #PlatformEngineering #TeamTopologies

Join @mattallford.com , @clfleming.bsky.social , and me for a conversation about our year in research. Featuring #GitOps, #PlatformEngineering, #AI, #Compliance, and more! Date: December 9-10, 2025 Starts: 5am PST / 8am EST / 13:00 GMT / 14:00 CET Location: Virtual event ➵ ➵ ➵ octopus.com/shipped

A sleepy indoor #caturday for Luna. Sending purrs to all #CatsOfBluesky

If I was an employer of software developers, I'd be hiring now while I can have my pick.

Whenever there a Cloudflare outage, I always suspect it's caused by this!

Well, spank me with a croissant while you sing Jacques Brel songs, it's only my post-Brussels trip Reading List 350! Wow sophisticated people at glamorous parties with your up-to-date knowledge of web standards, browsers and regulatory matters! brucelawson.co.uk/2025/reading...

📣 Want to be on the hashtag#cdCon 2026 Program Committee? Apply by Monday, November 24: cd.foundation/blog/2025/11...

This morning I watched the latest episode of Inside Platform Engineering with Matt Allford and Steve Wade. It's stacked with great stuff threaded together with a human-centric view of success. Go watch it, assess your complexity and get deleting. www.youtube.com/watc... #PlatformEngineering

A new episode has been added to the Chilling Deployment Tales; "Sixteen Hours". "Every six months, with the grim predictability of a condemned man's last meal, a Thursday night would be chosen for the great ritual – the Deployment." www.youtube.com/watc... #ContinuousDelivery #DevOps

Tell me, people — what’s your favorite Argo CD feature? 🤔

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

How to benefit from old knowledge without making old mistakes. By @stevefenton.co.uk

Luna is relaxing this #caturday but still says hello to all the #CatsOfBluesky

How to benefit from old knowledge without making old mistakes. By @stevefenton.co.uk

Imagine our house has been lifted by a hurricane and deposited in a strange land. The friendly people we meet tell us about a golden path, and off we go to see a wizard. We sing a little tune, because we don’t know the hazards awaiting us along the way. stevefenton.co.uk/bl... #PlatformEngineering

No punches were pulled in the writing of this article. "Putting it unkindly, the fall of all good methods is the result of managers fleeing in terror from things they don’t understand as well as they should."

Excited to share that my nomination, the State of AI-assisted Software Development, is a finalist for the 2025 #DevOpsDozenAwards! Your vote counts. Help choose the winners in 23 categories. Vote before New Year's Eve, at:

Heading to #DevOps London for some Platform Engineering fun (think Family Fortunes) and to meet lots of cool tech people!

How to benefit from old knowledge without making old mistakes. By @stevefenton.co.uk

This is wonderful! youtu.be/8tCxOguhkTU?...

Most now understand systems have constraints and that optimizing away from them won't improve value flow. The bigger revelation: it's okay for machines and people to run at less than 100% utilization; a departure from scientific management's labor-productivity trap. 1/2

I''m a finalist in the "Top #DevOps Community Evangelist" category of this year's DevOps Dozen awards hosted by @techstronggroup.bsky.social. Congratulations to all of the finalists, very well deserved! Voting is open now through the end of the year. www.surveymonkey.com/r/DevOps-Doz...

How to benefit from old knowledge without making old mistakes. By @stevefenton.co.uk

How to benefit from old knowledge without making old mistakes. By @stevefenton.co.uk

The best horror comes from real life stories. Help me create more of these Chilling Deployment Tales by sharing your real-life stories. I'll write them up anonymously in the style of classic Gothic Tales. www.youtube.com/watc... #DevOps #ContinuousDelivery #Deployments

You want to paint a wall. The fastest way to start is to open the paint tin and start rolling out the color. Except that’s not the quickest way to paint a wall, as expert painters know... stevefenton.co.uk/bl... #ContinuousDelivery #DevOps

Amen. How many times I've witnessed the almost seasonal transformations in orgs, fixing the problems cause be the last one. How many times I've seen orgs pendulum swing from one op model to another, once they realised what they lost (Chesterton's Fence)

Transformations never work. Even when they do. Find out why transformations are a fundamentally flawed approach to organizational change:

Welcome to Bluesky @clfleming.bsky.social 🎉

Meanwhile in DevOps No.48 Downgrading for the upsell. #ebooks #ereaders

Once you've embraced software development as an iterative, goal-seeking process, it makes most sense to optimise your development process for LEARNING. And that means optimising for FEEDBACK, and for ease of CHANGE. It's the feedback loop that does the heavy lifting.

Dad, the robot is twerking in the kitchen again!

This chart highlights one of the findings of the Platform Engineering Pulse report. It illustrates two key aspects: producer and consumer perspectives of platform success, and mandatory versus optional adoption strategies. Notice anything mind-melting?

InfoQ have placed Team Topologies adoption in the Early Majority segment for 2025: Team Topologies is now a mainstream approach. What's holding back your organization from adopting Team Topologies patterns and techniques in late 2025? www.infoq.com/articles/clo...

Back for Halloween! Meanwhile in HeckOps No.1 Harry, lord of heck, is briefing the demons in the daily stand up... #halloween #ai

I knew some old folks who did frankly heroic things and when they got praised for it just looked confused and said, "it was the right thing to do." I feel like we're losing whatever that was. Our conviction in doing "the right thing to do" has been dangerously eroded.

Get your hands on the free Platform Engineering Pulse report! Discover how organizations align with our community's views on #PlatformEngineering standards. Uncover insights like the producer/consumer gap, zero-metric illusion, and some unexpected adoption trends. octopus.com/publicat...

Thank you everyone who came to the DORA Community session. Here's a follow-up linkfest! The 2025 Report dora.dev/dora-report... Join our community https://dora.community My explainer on the DORA metrics cd.foundation/blog/2...

Join me at London DevOps on November 13, 2025 at 6 pm at Civo Tech Junction. I'll be sharing surprises from our #PlatformEngineering research and Hakoub Esfahani will be talking CI/CD and ephemeral environment.s

Meanwhile in DevOps No.47 User-centric platforms. Sadly based on our research! #PlatformEngineering #DevOps

Which answer would you pick in this poll? Writing survey questions can be tough, but on this occasion answering is even tougher!

What if the whole $294 billion industry tracked back to the same $1 bill moving at near lightspeed through this large hadron collider of capitalism?