Topic
Developer Tools
My writing, talks, podcasts, and projects about Developer Tools.
Selected work
Will LLMs and Vibe Coding Fuel a Developer Renaissance?
Exploring whether AI-assisted coding tools will democratize software development or create new categories of hard-to-debug production issues.
Why Are Agent Protocols Like MCP and A2A Needed?
Breaking down the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) standards — why interoperability matters for the next wave of AI agents.
Dana Lawson — CTO at Netlify
Fear, identity, and flaky tests — why SRE resistance to AI agents stems from identity and control concerns rather than the technology itself, and practical strategies for adopting AI-driven reliability tools starting with low-risk tasks.
OpenClaw Demo Night w/ Rootly AI, Convex, Sentry & DigitalOcean
An evening of AI demos and networking in Toronto — presenting Rootly AI alongside teams from Sentry, Red Brick Labs, Convex, and DigitalOcean.
Developers lose focus 1,200 times a day — how MCP could change that
Context switching kills developer productivity. How the Model Context Protocol (MCP) can reduce tool fragmentation and keep engineers in flow.
Conor Bronsdon — Head of Content at Galileo
Developer awareness, content strategy, and the human side of reliability engineering.
AI-First Platform Engineering: 3 Signals From PlatformCon
Three emerging patterns from PlatformCon that signal how AI is reshaping internal developer platforms and platform team workflows.
How AI is Fueling the Developer Renaissance
Panel at the AWS GenAI Loft with leaders from a16z, AWS, Dagger, Braintrust, Baseten, and Arize AI on how AI is transforming developer workflows.
Justin Reock — Deputy CTO at DX
Developer experience, engineering metrics, and what makes teams productive and reliable.
The Future of AI-Driven Reliability
Panel with leaders from a16z, Y Combinator, and Google Cloud on how MCP servers and agent-to-agent communication are revolutionizing developer tools. Demos from Anthropic, Sentry, Postman, and Browserbase.
Mark Quigley — Head of Platform Engineering
Building internal developer platforms and the organizational dynamics of platform teams.
Kaspar von Grunberg — CEO at Humanitec
The platform engineering movement, internal developer platforms, and developer self-service.
Introducing Canyon — an AI for developer self-service
Canyon lets developers provision resources, troubleshoot issues, and interact with internal tooling via natural-language prompts.
Backstage Multicluster UI for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes
Building a unified developer portal with Backstage that spans both Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes clusters.
From hype to impact: How AI is reshaping platform engineering
Moving past the buzzwords — where AI is actually changing developer workflows, internal developer portals, and what it means for platform teams.
How to Containerize a Python Application with Paketo Buildpacks
Step-by-step guide to containerizing Python apps using Paketo Buildpacks — no Dockerfile required.
3 Ways to Offset Kubernetes Complexity
Practical strategies to reduce Kubernetes operational complexity — from platform abstractions to developer self-service portals.
For companies that use ML, labeled data is the key differentiator
Why Tesla leads on ADAS — and what it teaches every company about the strategic value of training data, annotation pipelines, and the $6B labeling market.
First 5 Commands When I Connect on a Linux Server
The essential first five commands every sysadmin runs when SSH-ing into a Linux server — from uptime to disk usage.
Create an Open Source AWS S3 Server
A hands-on guide to setting up your own S3-compatible object storage server using open source tools.