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Kubernetes production best practices: the 2026 guide
DevSecOps

Kubernetes production best practices: the 2026 guide

Health probes, requests and limits, autoscaling with Karpenter and KEDA, RBAC, network policies, GitOps: the practices that make Kubernetes production-grade.

Updated September 15, 20269 min
AI-First DevOps industrialisation: the 2026 barometer
DevSecOps

AI-First DevOps industrialisation: the 2026 barometer

Adservio 2026 barometer, consolidated by our 180+ consultants: 4 maturity tiers, measured KPIs (x10 deployments, MTTR divided by 3), sector feedback and 3 anti-patterns.

June 12, 202610 min
AI-augmented platform engineering: the IDP in 2026
DevSecOps

AI-augmented platform engineering: the IDP in 2026

80% of engineering organisations run a platform team in 2026. How agentic AI turns the IDP into a governed, sovereign and self-service delivery platform.

June 9, 20269 min
Autonomous SRE in 2026: agentic incident response
AI Agents

Autonomous SRE in 2026: agentic incident response

AI agents wired to observability correlate telemetry, code and deployments to triage and remediate incidents. Alert fatigue down 40-60%, MTTR falling.

June 4, 20266 min
Self-healing CI/CD pipelines: self-repair through AI
DevSecOps

Self-healing CI/CD pipelines: self-repair through AI

Self-healing CI/CD pipelines in 2026: how LLM agents and Kubernetes operators detect, diagnose and fix delivery failures, with guardrails and measurable FinOps gains.

June 2, 20266 min
Securing LLMs in 2026: attack vectors and self-hosted defense
DevSecOps

Securing LLMs in 2026: attack vectors and self-hosted defense

Six attack vectors against LLMs, prompt injection, GCG, PoisonedRAG, MCP exploits, agentic, and a self-hosted ModernBERT defence at 35 ms and under $1.

May 21, 202610 min
Resilience in the Financial Sector - Lessons from Human Evolution
DevSecOps

Resilience in the Financial Sector - Lessons from Human Evolution

Financial-sector resilience mirrors the human body's homeostasis: a four-step framework for advancing technology resilience and operating-model resilience together.

November 9, 202510 min
Semantic Search and Information Retrieval with Transformers
GenAI

Semantic Search and Information Retrieval with Transformers

Semantic search in 2026: embeddings, cosine similarity, the retriever + reranker duo, vector databases and hybrid search for building an accurate RAG at scale.

November 8, 20257 min
Software architecture decisions: who should be involved?
AI Strategy

Software architecture decisions: who should be involved?

Andrew Harmel-Law on decentralizing architecture decisions: advice not permission, ADRs, five software revolutions, and how to build organizational trust.

November 7, 20259 min
How to Build an AI-Ready Knowledge Base: Migrating Data from Confluence to Azure
GenAI

How to Build an AI-Ready Knowledge Base: Migrating Data from Confluence to Azure

Discover how to build an automated pipeline that migrates Confluence content to Azure to create an AI-ready knowledge base with RAG, semantic embeddings, and continuous updates.

November 6, 202510 min
Start smarter: how to identify your digital transformation exemplar
AI Strategy

Start smarter: how to identify your digital transformation exemplar

How to pick the right digital transformation exemplar: a discovery phase, three decision lenses (impact, feasibility, relevance), and team mobilization.

November 6, 20259 min
Tech Industry Macro-Trends | November 2025
AI Strategy

Tech Industry Macro-Trends | November 2025

An analysis of November 2025's tech macro-trends: AI infrastructure orchestration, Kubernetes for GPU workloads, context engineering, and the rise of the Model Context Protocol.

November 5, 202515 min
From vibe coding to context engineering: 2025 in software development
GenAI

From vibe coding to context engineering: 2025 in software development

From vibe coding to context engineering: how 2025 transformed software development, and why MCP, A2A and AI agents put software engineers back at the center.

November 5, 20259 min
MCP Security: Solving Unintended Access with the API Delegation Model
AI Agents

MCP Security: Solving Unintended Access with the API Delegation Model

Remote MCP servers, OAuth 2.1, PKCE, and gateways: how the API delegation model secures AI agent access without reinventing access control from scratch.

November 5, 20259 min
The evolution of platform engineering
DevSecOps

The evolution of platform engineering

Seven years from DevOps to platform engineering: from manual deployments to product-minded IDPs, SLOs, and AI-infused platforms in 2026.

November 3, 202511 min
The five dimensions of AI adoption
AI Strategy

The five dimensions of AI adoption

A five-dimension framework - literacy, engineering, champions, governance and playbook - to turn generative AI adoption into lasting business value.

November 2, 202510 min
The High-Performance Playbook: How Great Product Teams Deliver Results
AI Strategy

The High-Performance Playbook: How Great Product Teams Deliver Results

The high-performance product team playbook: shared vision, autonomy, trust, quality, and early value delivery, plus the metrics that track real progress.

November 1, 20259 min
The Inside-Out Advantage: Why Customer Experience Starts With Employee Experience
AI Agents

The Inside-Out Advantage: Why Customer Experience Starts With Employee Experience

Why employee experience drives customer experience: concrete levers, agentic AI and product thinking to durably align EX and CX across your organization.

October 31, 20258 min
How Adservio's PerformanceAI Transforms Marketing Analytics with AI Agents
GenAI

How Adservio's PerformanceAI Transforms Marketing Analytics with AI Agents

PerformanceAI, Adservio's multi-agent application, answers marketing questions in natural language: architecture, RAG, guardrails and adoption lessons.

October 30, 20258 min
Building for Intent: Becoming an Organization Ready for the Age of AI Agents
AI Strategy

Building for Intent: Becoming an Organization Ready for the Age of AI Agents

Moving from interfaces to intent is a strategic transformation: mindset, MCP architecture, new roles, culture and governance to get your organization ready.

October 29, 20258 min
The Model Context Protocol: Beyond the Hype, the Standard for AI Agents
AI Agents

The Model Context Protocol: Beyond the Hype, the Standard for AI Agents

Architecture, 2026 specification, official registry, security: how the Model Context Protocol went from hype to the production standard for AI agents.

October 29, 20259 min
The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Transformation: Lessons for Enterprises
AI Strategy

The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Transformation: Lessons for Enterprises

Seven deadly sins explain why most AI transformations fail: aimless data hoarding, overconfidence, copycat strategies, sacrificed ethics. Real cases and the path to redemption.

October 28, 202514 min
The five data modernization strategies for business success
DevSecOps

The five data modernization strategies for business success

Five concrete strategies to align data with business goals, modernize without a big-bang rebuild, and turn data into a lasting competitive advantage.

October 27, 20258 min
Transforming public services with AI
AI Agents

Transforming public services with AI

Agentic AI in public services: unified portal, automated eligibility screening, cross-agency orchestration, and a phased approach to transform the citizen experience.

October 26, 20257 min
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