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2026-07-30

Low-Code/No-Code & Citizen Development — Governing Innovation Without Losing Control

A spreadsheet macro built by an operations analyst becomes the system three departments depend on to close the books. Low-code and no-code platforms formalise this instinct rather than fight it — but only if IT builds the governance model that keeps citizen-built applications from becoming the next generation of unmanaged technical debt. This post covers the citizen development model, the shadow IT risk, and the platforms leading the enterprise market.

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2026-07-23

DevOps, SDLC & Platform Engineering — How Elite Teams Ship Software

Elite software organisations deploy multiple times a day and recover from failure in minutes. Most enterprises deploy monthly and take days to recover. The gap is not talent — it is the maturity of DevOps practice and the platform engineering discipline that supports it. This post covers the DevOps maturity model, the four DORA metrics that measure it, and why platform engineering has become the operating model for developer productivity at scale.

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2026-07-22

AI's Real Bottleneck Isn't Chips — It's a $40 Million Transformer

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are on track to spend more than $650 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026 — and roughly half of the U.S. data centers planned for this year will be delayed or cancelled anyway. Not because of GPU shortages. Because of transformers, switchgear, and batteries that now take up to five years to deliver. This is the story of how the AI buildout hit a wall that capital cannot outrun, and what it means for every IT leader planning infrastructure around AI in 2026.

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