Golden robots. Twenty self-driving tripods. Ships with no pilot. Once you start looking for AI in the Iliad and the Odyssey, you cannot stop.Around 750 BC, a poet described a strange workshop. Twenty three-legged tables rolled themselves to a meeting, attended it, and came home again.He gives it one line. No wonder. No crowd gathering to watch. No sense that he expects you to be surprised. He mentions it the way you would mention a dishwasher, then moves on.I went to the cinema that week hoping for a sea monster. I came out with a reading list and a mild…
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The tech landscape constantly evolves, making it tempting to chase every new trend. Ironically, in today’s business world, the word “innovation” has become almost synonymous with technology adoption. Yet after years of leading digital transformations, I’ve learned that sustainable innovation isn’t about having the latest technology—it’s about solving business problems and delivering measurable impact.In 2025, the hype was “we’re building an AI strategy.” In 2026, it’s becoming clearer that many of those strategies were more aspirational than actionable—some even serving more as positioning than practical guidance. The latest wave of generative AI has carried a magic-wand promise: that simply generating…
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The SQL MCP Server is a part of the Data API Builder (DAB). DAB is a wrapper that allows you to run a service over your databases that exposes REST, GRAPHQL, and now, MCP, in a way that lets you control it.I’ve written a bit about this here and at SQL Server Central, and this post looks at adding MCP access to your DAB setup.This is part of a series on the Data API Builder.Adding the MCP EndpointI have a DAB setup already that runs well. I…
TL;DR — Key Takeaways GitHub’s Copilot cloud agent integration with Linear has moved into general availability. Teams can select models, use repository-defined custom agents and control base and working branches directly from Linear. Workspace and team-level guidance lets engineering leaders standardize how delegated issues are handled. Developers can now redirect an agent while it is still working by mentioning Copilot in a Linear comment. GitHub has moved Copilot cloud agent’s integration with Linear out of preview and into general availability, and the update brings more than a stability label. Along with GA status, GitHub added a set of controls that…
Learn how to install safe-agentic-workflow (SAW) on Linux, add it to a project alongside Claude Code, and use it to process a real task through its multi-agent workflow with Node.js and Git. If you ask Claude Code to fix a single bug, it will usually do a good job. But as projects grow and you start handling multiple bugs across different files over several days, things can become inconsistent. One agent might skip running tests, another might make changes you didn’t ask for, and it can be difficult to track who approved what. SAW is designed to solve these problems…
It is almost midnight, and I am writing this instead of sleeping, because jobs are disappearing quietly all around me and I cannot make my mind stop circling it. I meant to write something calmer and more useful, maybe with three things to do this week. But that is not what is sitting in my chest tonight, so I am not going to fake it.Not a report. Something I needed to say out loud, in case you are running the same numbers tonight.Here is the thought I have said to almost no one: if this keeps going, who pays the…
TL;DR — Key Takeaways Wheely extracted push, SMS and status notifications from its Ruby monolith into a centralized, stateless Go service after fragmented delivery logic became difficult to scale and manage. When its shared RabbitMQ cluster struggled with large campaign spikes, the team used MongoDB as a persistent polling queue with atomic task claiming, retries, exponential backoff, idempotency and dead-letter handling. The new architecture handled several times the previous peak volume without broker-related delivery failures, but introduced polling latency, database overhead and additional functionality for the team to maintain A back-end team extracted notification delivery from a large Ruby monolith…
Disclaimer: Built with Claude Code Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against a local Azure SQL Database Developer container — the same engine as the cloud, running on your machine.The problem: proving a migration works shouldn’t require the cloudIf you run Azure SQL Database, you want to know a schema migration will succeed before you apply it in production. But the honest way to be sure has always meant testing against a live Azure SQL Database — which means a subscription, cloud spend, and slow round-trips every time you tweak the migration.So validation…
TL;DR — Key Takeaways Claude Code helped deliver an AI-powered web feature in roughly two weeks by accelerating codebase understanding, implementation and debugging. The main risk was not whether AI-generated code worked, but whether it matched the existing architecture, reused shared components and avoided technical debt. Real-world testing uncovered a serious memory issue that AI had not identified, reinforcing that production readiness still depends on human judgment and validation. When Photify AI was removed from the App Store, our team had about two weeks to preserve one of its core capabilities: AI-powered photo and video generation. The fastest path was…
TL;DR — Key Takeaways CloudWatch is moving beyond reactive dashboards with AI-driven anomaly detection, proactive insights and guided incident investigations. S3 Tables and Apache Iceberg let teams build scalable, lower-cost log lakes for long-term analysis across Athena, Redshift and Spark. GenAI monitoring and AI-assisted Five Whys analysis help teams track LLM costs, diagnose RAG latency and reduce incident resolution time. Traditional monitoring often meant chasing alerts and toggling between dashboards after an issue had already impacted users. AWS CloudWatch — long the backbone of metrics, logs and traces on AWS — is evolving past that reactive paradigm. The latest CloudWatch…