Physical AI took a real step forward this week, while Azure spent its energy on the less glamorous work of making existing services more complete: keys that no longer need wrapping, a gateway that finally speaks IPv6 properly, and locks…
The FinOps Foundation’s State of FinOps 2025 report, drawn from organisations responsible for over $69 billion of cloud spend, found that only a small minority of organisations have reached “Run” maturity, with the majority still at “Walk” or “Crawl” stage.…
Eighty-two per cent of organisations running containers now run Kubernetes in production, according to the CNCF Annual Survey released in January 2026. That figure is up from 66 per cent in 2023 and is routinely cited as evidence that Kubernetes…
Catchpoint’s SRE Report 2025, now in its seventh year of tracking the profession, reported something unexpected: operational toil rose for the first time in five years. Median toil time across 301 site reliability practitioners climbed from 25% to 30% of…
AWS arrived in New York this week with a dense set of announcements, while Azure quietly published something platform engineers planning a storage migration will actually want to read. Cutting across both is a broader theme: the parts of the…
Cloud-mature organisations learn this slowly. The IaC pipeline runs cleanly, the resource exists, the deployment succeeds, and everyone moves on to the next sprint. What does not move with them is the operational context: who knows how this service behaves…
If you are a senior cloud or platform engineer at a UK enterprise right now, there is roughly a one-in-two chance your team has been restructured in the last 18 months. Platform engineering teams are being disbanded or reshaped at…
It has been a week dominated by platform stories, which is fitting because that is exactly where the most important enterprise decisions are being made right now. Whether it is data infrastructure, compliance architecture, or agentic AI, every major vendor…
AWS VPC Lattice solves a genuine enterprise problem: service-to-service communication across VPCs and accounts without the CIDR overlap headaches, security group sprawl, or sidecar overhead of a full service mesh. The architecture is elegant on paper. Getting it to work…
The number that should make you pause is 22%. That is the proportion of engineering leaders and developers who scored in the critical burnout range when LeadDev surveyed 617 practitioners using the Maslach Burnout Inventory for their 2025 Engineering Leadership…
