2026

Jun
08

Reacting to AI (reducing shadow AI practices)

Platform Engineering teams have inherited distributed multi-agent systems and they are struggling to support teams. Option paralysis is not something that these teams can afford now. Taming Shadow AI is the challenge of 2026.
11 min read
May
27

Five semantic conventions, one config property (Observing Spring AI with Arconia)

I don't think semantic convention fragmentation in the GenAI observability space is going away soon.
6 min read
Apr
20

🇪🇸Spring I/O 2026

Spring I/O 2026 in Barcelona brought AI, agentic patterns, and Spring 7.x/Boot 4.x to the forefront. Spring AI 2.0's native MCP support, maturing observability standards, and protocol convergence are reshaping how Java teams build intelligent systems.
5 min read
Apr
19

Manage and distribute skills with `skills-oci`

Manage and distribute agent skills with OCI-compliant images, enabling versioning, distribution, reuse of existing infrastructure, and leveraging the OCI ecosystem for signing, verifying provenance, and security scanning.
5 min read
Mar
23

DevEx in the age of AI

TLTR: coding agents are replacing the tasks developers perform in their inner loops. What tools and practices can help you tame these agents to be more efficient and get the most out of these tools? What would it take to adopt these coding agents at scale in a secure and reliable way?
18 min read