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2026-09-17

MQ Spotlight: Enterprise DevOps — GitLab vs GitHub vs Azure DevOps

GitHub holds roughly 38% of the source code management market against GitLab's 16% and Azure DevOps' 10%, but the platform question every DevOps leader actually faces isn't market share — it's which of the three fits your regulatory posture, your Microsoft dependency, and how much of your DevSecOps stack you want built in versus assembled. This MQ Spotlight closes the Software & Development phase with a direct comparison and a decision framework.

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2026-09-10

AI-Assisted Development — Copilot, Agentic Coding & Delivery Teams

GitHub Copilot is used across roughly 90% of Fortune 100 organisations, and Cursor has crossed $2B ARR — but JetBrains' 2026 survey shows enterprises and startups reaching for different tools for different reasons, and satisfaction scores don't track adoption scores. This post covers what changes when AI writes and reviews code at delivery-team scale, the real difference between an assistant and an agentic coding tool, and the governance question most rollouts skip.

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2026-09-03

Application Modernisation — The Legacy Estate That Never Goes Away

The average enterprise burns $2.7M a year just keeping legacy systems alive, and technical debt now eats 21-40% of total IT spend. This post covers why the legacy estate keeps growing instead of shrinking, the four real modernisation strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor, rearchitect) and when each one is the right call, and why most modernisation programmes stall before they reach the systems that actually matter.

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