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Once you run out of AI tokens - is the workday over?
Matt Saunders highlights the funny - and expensive - reality of modern AI adoption:
“Once we’ve used our token budget, should we just go home? Is our work done?”
🔹 2016: "Track your server costs"
🔹 2021: "Track your cloud bill"
🔹 2026: "Track your AI token usage"The lesson? AI can boost developer productivity, but unmanaged usage burns through budgets fast. The focus should be on usage policies, FinOps visibility, and measurable ROI - not unlimited prompt generation.
🎧 Hear more from Matt in the Cloud & DevOps InfoQ Trends Report 2026 podcast 👉 https://bit.ly/4wUwGy5
#DevOps #PlatformEngineering #FinOps #AI #TechLeadership #InfoQ
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Once you run out of AI tokens - is the workday over?
Matt Saunders highlights the funny - and expensive - reality of modern AI adoption:
“Once we’ve used our token budget, should we just go home? Is our work done?”
🔹 2016: "Track your server costs"
🔹 2021: "Track your cloud bill"
🔹 2026: "Track your AI token usage"The lesson? AI can boost developer productivity, but unmanaged usage burns through budgets fast. The focus should be on usage policies, FinOps visibility, and measurable ROI - not unlimited prompt generation.
🎧 Hear more from Matt in the Cloud & DevOps InfoQ Trends Report 2026 podcast 👉 https://bit.ly/4wUwGy5
#DevOps #PlatformEngineering #FinOps #AI #TechLeadership #InfoQ
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Shift Left vs Shift Down: Rethinking #PlatformEngineering https://tapasjena.com/shift-left-vs-shift-down-rethinking-platform-engineering-fd98788e8c2e
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Shift Left vs Shift Down: Rethinking #PlatformEngineering https://tapasjena.com/shift-left-vs-shift-down-rethinking-platform-engineering-fd98788e8c2e
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Most security audits focus heavily on application code but completely miss the delivery layer where avoidable failures actually live.
When environments match poorly and deployments are manual, you introduce massive unpredictability before a single line of code even runs.
Moving your infrastructure definition into version control and automating those steps is the easiest way to prevent silent gaps like configuration drift.
👉 https://upsun.com/blog/security-reliability-delivery-model-weak-points/
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Most security audits focus heavily on application code but completely miss the delivery layer where avoidable failures actually live.
When environments match poorly and deployments are manual, you introduce massive unpredictability before a single line of code even runs.
Moving your infrastructure definition into version control and automating those steps is the easiest way to prevent silent gaps like configuration drift.
👉 https://upsun.com/blog/security-reliability-delivery-model-weak-points/
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We have all been there on a Friday afternoon when a feature is ready to test but the shared staging environment is occupied or completely broken.
Shared staging creates a massive serialization bottleneck that forces your parallel development to become sequential.
By automatically provisioning Git-driven preview environments for every branch, you can completely dissolve the queue and close the gap with production. 🚀
👉 https://upsun.com/blog/staging-bottleneck-preview-environments/
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We have all been there on a Friday afternoon when a feature is ready to test but the shared staging environment is occupied or completely broken.
Shared staging creates a massive serialization bottleneck that forces your parallel development to become sequential.
By automatically provisioning Git-driven preview environments for every branch, you can completely dissolve the queue and close the gap with production. 🚀
👉 https://upsun.com/blog/staging-bottleneck-preview-environments/
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The cheap era of AI is over, and it is not coming back.
GPU rental up 48% in two months. Peak-hour throttling by design. Every turn rereads the whole context, and output costs 5x input.
Stefan Wolpers frames token discipline as personal skill. I go further: you cannot run an org on individual willpower. Cost has to be visible and governed by design, not after the fact.
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My talk proposal for #NixCon has been accepted! I'll be presenting at #NixCon2026 on how to bring #Nix's functional purity to #CloudNative #PlatformEngineering.
We'll move beyond #Helm templating and #Docker builds to derive reproducible #Kubernetes deployments using #Kubenix and #NixOS modules, unlocking hermetic builds, accurate #SBOMs, and truly auditable infrastructure.Feel free to reach out if you have a specific use-case to be covered, I'd love to hear from you!
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My talk proposal for #NixCon has been accepted! I'll be presenting at #NixCon2026 on how to bring #Nix's functional purity to #CloudNative #PlatformEngineering.
We'll move beyond #Helm templating and #Docker builds to derive reproducible #Kubernetes deployments using #Kubenix and #NixOS modules, unlocking hermetic builds, accurate #SBOMs, and truly auditable infrastructure.Feel free to reach out if you have a specific use-case to be covered, I'd love to hear from you!
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Code isn't the bottleneck anymore. In this episode of our new series, Product Highlights, our Director of Product Marketing, Greg Qualls, sits down with Principal Engineer Patrick Dawkins to discuss what it actually takes for teams to build with AI, drawing on lessons from Upsun Dispatch. 😎
His take on workflows as a core primitive for AI-assisted teams is worth your seven minutes. 🎥
👉 Watch the full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FapZan4QKpg
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Code isn't the bottleneck anymore. In this episode of our new series, Product Highlights, our Director of Product Marketing, Greg Qualls, sits down with Principal Engineer Patrick Dawkins to discuss what it actually takes for teams to build with AI, drawing on lessons from Upsun Dispatch. 😎
His take on workflows as a core primitive for AI-assisted teams is worth your seven minutes. 🎥
👉 Watch the full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FapZan4QKpg
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Every IT leader running distributed engineering teams eventually hits the same wall when trying to standardize app delivery.
Lock things down too tightly and developers find workarounds, but leave it too open and you end up governing a dozen undocumented paths to production.
When the standard path becomes the fastest path, compliance automatically becomes the default choice for your teams. ⚡
👉 https://upsun.com/blog/standardize-app-delivery-across-multiple-teams/
#PlatformEngineering #DevOps #SoftwareEngineering #ITGovernance
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Every IT leader running distributed engineering teams eventually hits the same wall when trying to standardize app delivery.
Lock things down too tightly and developers find workarounds, but leave it too open and you end up governing a dozen undocumented paths to production.
When the standard path becomes the fastest path, compliance automatically becomes the default choice for your teams. ⚡
👉 https://upsun.com/blog/standardize-app-delivery-across-multiple-teams/
#PlatformEngineering #DevOps #SoftwareEngineering #ITGovernance
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AI makes the first version of a feature cheaper. That changes product architecture, not only delivery speed.
I wrote about a three-layer model: an owned core for invariants, a contract layer for guarded capabilities, and a replaceable edge for customer workflows and integrations.
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AI makes the first version of a feature cheaper. That changes product architecture, not only delivery speed.
I wrote about a three-layer model: an owned core for invariants, a contract layer for guarded capabilities, and a replaceable edge for customer workflows and integrations.
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How do you migrate 3 monoliths to 120+ microservices without a dedicated migration budget?
A payroll & HR software team pulled it off over 5 years with a single strategy: The Hard-Stop Rule.
💡 Instead of modifying the old monoliths, every new feature was built as its own standalone service.
The #InfoQ article covers:
🔹 Pull-based migration architecture
🔹 Cost-saving deployment tactics
🔹 Key tools & hard-learned lessons📰 Read the case study: https://bit.ly/44R1GTt
#Microservices #Azure #PlatformEngineering #SoftwareArchitecture
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How do you migrate 3 monoliths to 120+ microservices without a dedicated migration budget?
A payroll & HR software team pulled it off over 5 years with a single strategy: The Hard-Stop Rule.
💡 Instead of modifying the old monoliths, every new feature was built as its own standalone service.
The #InfoQ article covers:
🔹 Pull-based migration architecture
🔹 Cost-saving deployment tactics
🔹 Key tools & hard-learned lessons📰 Read the case study: https://bit.ly/44R1GTt
#Microservices #Azure #PlatformEngineering #SoftwareArchitecture
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Most engineering teams are careful about tracking feature velocity, but they completely miss the hours lost to manual environment drift and repetitive maintenance tasks.
By automating provisioning and environment scaling with a dedicated platform like Upsun, you can finally give your developers their time back to build features that actually move the business forward. 🚀
👉 https://upsun.com/blog/engineering-time-lost-to-infrastructure/
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Most engineering teams are careful about tracking feature velocity, but they completely miss the hours lost to manual environment drift and repetitive maintenance tasks.
By automating provisioning and environment scaling with a dedicated platform like Upsun, you can finally give your developers their time back to build features that actually move the business forward. 🚀
👉 https://upsun.com/blog/engineering-time-lost-to-infrastructure/
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Everyone is fixated on large language models and autonomous AI agents right now.
The models are merely the catalyst that shows what is possible, while the actual revolution relies on the infrastructure built around them.
Discover why infrastructure is the canal that connects code to the world and makes the cognitive industrial revolution real. 👉https://upsun.com/blog/why-the-ai-era-belongs-to-infrastructure/
#PlatformEngineering #CloudInfrastructure #DevOps #GenerativeAI
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Everyone is fixated on large language models and autonomous AI agents right now.
The models are merely the catalyst that shows what is possible, while the actual revolution relies on the infrastructure built around them.
Discover why infrastructure is the canal that connects code to the world and makes the cognitive industrial revolution real. 👉https://upsun.com/blog/why-the-ai-era-belongs-to-infrastructure/
#PlatformEngineering #CloudInfrastructure #DevOps #GenerativeAI
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Developers should spend their time building software, not managing infrastructure.
That is the idea Upsun has been built around since day one. And it is the same idea that earned us our first inclusion in the IDC ProductScape: Worldwide Cloud Deployment–Centric Application Platforms, 2026.
👉 Get the complimentary excerpt and see how Upsun's capabilities are mapped: https://upsun.com/2026-idc-productscape-upsun/
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Developers should spend their time building software, not managing infrastructure.
That is the idea Upsun has been built around since day one. And it is the same idea that earned us our first inclusion in the IDC ProductScape: Worldwide Cloud Deployment–Centric Application Platforms, 2026.
👉 Get the complimentary excerpt and see how Upsun's capabilities are mapped: https://upsun.com/2026-idc-productscape-upsun/
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🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly July 2026 is out!
✈️ Airbus walks away from AWS
🎯 Codecov, Cordyceps — CI/CD keeps being the attack surface
💸 An AWS billing alert for $140B (yes, really)
🌍 Data sovereignty is now an architecture constraint, not just policy
🚦 Ingress-NGINX retirement — migrate or panic📖 Read & subscribe → https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-july-d06
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🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly July 2026 is out!
✈️ Airbus walks away from AWS
🎯 Codecov, Cordyceps — CI/CD keeps being the attack surface
💸 An AWS billing alert for $140B (yes, really)
🌍 Data sovereignty is now an architecture constraint, not just policy
🚦 Ingress-NGINX retirement — migrate or panic📖 Read & subscribe → https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-july-d06
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There’s a runbook running against your production right now.
You didn’t write it. You didn’t review it. You can’t see it.
Your vendor shipped it as an AI agent skill - their opinion of what’s broken and what to do about it, executing on your infra. It came with an install command, not a pull request.
I read what a dozen vendors shipped. Six ways it breaks in prod. Six questions to ask before you turn it on.
https://devops.pink/the-runbook-you-didnt-write-vendor-ai-agent-skills/
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There’s a runbook running against your production right now.
You didn’t write it. You didn’t review it. You can’t see it.
Your vendor shipped it as an AI agent skill - their opinion of what’s broken and what to do about it, executing on your infra. It came with an install command, not a pull request.
I read what a dozen vendors shipped. Six ways it breaks in prod. Six questions to ask before you turn it on.
https://devops.pink/the-runbook-you-didnt-write-vendor-ai-agent-skills/
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116985884020420822
Like all engineers I deal with imposter syndrome on occasion… and then I get subtle reminders I’m doing better than I thought.
#cve #sysadmin #root #linux #infosec #ssh #devops #PlatformEngineering #ImposterSyndrome
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116985884020420822
Like all engineers I deal with imposter syndrome on occasion… and then I get subtle reminders I’m doing better than I thought.
#cve #sysadmin #root #linux #infosec #ssh #devops #PlatformEngineering #ImposterSyndrome
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SymfonyCloud is purpose-built for Symfony, developed hand in hand with the Symfony team itself. ☁️
Git push deploys. Every branch gets its own preview environment with a full copy of production data. Blackfire observability is available out of the box, and you run it all from the Symfony CLI you already know.
Purpose-built for developers who'd rather ship than configure. 🚀
👉 Take a look: https://symfony.com/cloud/
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SymfonyCloud is purpose-built for Symfony, developed hand in hand with the Symfony team itself. ☁️
Git push deploys. Every branch gets its own preview environment with a full copy of production data. Blackfire observability is available out of the box, and you run it all from the Symfony CLI you already know.
Purpose-built for developers who'd rather ship than configure. 🚀
👉 Take a look: https://symfony.com/cloud/
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We have all had that afternoon where a sudden Slack message announces that staging is broken due to environment drift.
Spending hours fixing your CI/CD pipeline instead of coding features is the hidden cost of treating your platform like a basic hosting account.
With Upsun, a single version-controlled configuration file defines your entire stack and lets the platform handle everything below the application layer. 🚀
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We have all had that afternoon where a sudden Slack message announces that staging is broken due to environment drift.
Spending hours fixing your CI/CD pipeline instead of coding features is the hidden cost of treating your platform like a basic hosting account.
With Upsun, a single version-controlled configuration file defines your entire stack and lets the platform handle everything below the application layer. 🚀
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What do you do for a living again?
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--- my mum, as to me, not that long ago"""
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--- me, in response, trying to explain this graph#bioinformatics #platformengineering #platformengineeringendgamewithallthetoysandlotsoflove
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... And the green grass grew all around, all around and the green grass grew all around
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--- how I spent much of the winter and spring, in the car, on the way to and from schoolDid you know that children's songs teach algorithms? This one's LIFO accumulator that unwinds each turn
Perfect fodder for a Nextflow test harness
#bioinformatics #platformEngineering #platformengineeringendgamewithallthetoysandlotsoflove
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Running workloads on two clouds does not mean you can move them freely, so let us stop calling locked-in redundancy multicloud theater.
True cloud portability means your applications and data can migrate without a massive engineering rescue project because your infrastructure configuration travels with your code.
Stop letting incremental vendor lock-in dictate your architecture and data sovereignty strategy.
👉 https://upsun.com/blog/what-is-cloud-portability-and-how-to-achieve-it/
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Running workloads on two clouds does not mean you can move them freely, so let us stop calling locked-in redundancy multicloud theater.
True cloud portability means your applications and data can migrate without a massive engineering rescue project because your infrastructure configuration travels with your code.
Stop letting incremental vendor lock-in dictate your architecture and data sovereignty strategy.
👉 https://upsun.com/blog/what-is-cloud-portability-and-how-to-achieve-it/
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Most Internal Developer Platforms don't fail because of technology - they fail because they're treated as infrastructure instead of products.
In this talk, Max Körbächer explains why successful platform engineering requires a product mindset, focusing on developer experience, community, and meaningful metrics like DevEx and SPACE - not just tooling.
🎬 Watch now 👉 https://bit.ly/4feIWDo
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Most Internal Developer Platforms don't fail because of technology - they fail because they're treated as infrastructure instead of products.
In this talk, Max Körbächer explains why successful platform engineering requires a product mindset, focusing on developer experience, community, and meaningful metrics like DevEx and SPACE - not just tooling.
🎬 Watch now 👉 https://bit.ly/4feIWDo
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Bad #CloudGovernance breaks developer velocity: ignored docs, low adoption, and broken builds.
Here is how Sevdesk fixed it with:
🔹 Minimum Viable Governance on AWS
🔹 Event-driven Slack alerts (inform before enforcing)
🔹 Data over rigid rulesWatch now 👉 https://bit.ly/4wjmoYj
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Bad #CloudGovernance breaks developer velocity: ignored docs, low adoption, and broken builds.
Here is how Sevdesk fixed it with:
🔹 Minimum Viable Governance on AWS
🔹 Event-driven Slack alerts (inform before enforcing)
🔹 Data over rigid rulesWatch now 👉 https://bit.ly/4wjmoYj
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So... where /did/ you two end up last night?
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--- they, to their friends Terraform and Jenkins about 9 months ago after they disappeared at a party they were having to celebrate their new lifeJenkins + Jenkins Configuration as Code + an apply time groovy script that writes jobs on demand + the YAML config that feeds it. Data driven CI/CD that their mothers absolutely love (and everyone else should too :))
#platformengineering #platformengineeringendgamewithabitofyamlandlotsoflove
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Running a major e-commerce campaign only to be greeted by an unpredictable cloud bill is a surprise nobody wants. 💸
Between unbounded auto-scaling and sneaky data egress fees, traditional hyperscalers often turn your hard-earned traffic spikes into massive budget leaks.
A unified management platform like Upsun lets you scale safely and keep your budget fully under control before the flash sale even begins. 🚀
👉 https://upsun.com/blog/the-hidden-cost-of-scaling-ecommerce-on-hyperscalers/
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Running a major e-commerce campaign only to be greeted by an unpredictable cloud bill is a surprise nobody wants. 💸
Between unbounded auto-scaling and sneaky data egress fees, traditional hyperscalers often turn your hard-earned traffic spikes into massive budget leaks.
A unified management platform like Upsun lets you scale safely and keep your budget fully under control before the flash sale even begins. 🚀
👉 https://upsun.com/blog/the-hidden-cost-of-scaling-ecommerce-on-hyperscalers/
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https://youtu.be/A7WFt2JQ5sg?is=NKAYTmpiTP65b8c_
Kelsey never disappoints!
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https://youtu.be/A7WFt2JQ5sg?is=NKAYTmpiTP65b8c_
Kelsey never disappoints!
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Anyone know why using the `assert` provider would be preferable to a standard logical operator?
Other than that the provider can do stuff like network calls is there any clear use condition?
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Anyone know why using the `assert` provider would be preferable to a standard logical operator?
Other than that the provider can do stuff like network calls is there any clear use condition?
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Developers should spend their time building software, not managing infrastructure.
That is the idea Upsun has been built around since day one. And it is the same idea that earned us our first inclusion in the IDC ProductScape: Worldwide Cloud Deployment–Centric Application Platforms, 2026.
👉 Get the complimentary excerpt and see how Upsun's capabilities are mapped: https://upsun.com/2026-idc-productscape-upsun/
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Hey network! Any Cloud Native or Platform Engineering conferences I should look out for in 2027? This year's list of conferences is getting heavy, but I prefer to be one step ahead 😉
#PlatformEngineering #CloudNative #Conferences
#CloudNativeAmbassador #MVPBuzz