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INSIGHTS / CLOUDPEAKIFY

Ideas for better technology decisions

Less noise.
More perspective.

Practical thinking for the people building, running and changing technology. Find your next decision here.

Practical guides
The decision guide

What should happen to your VMware workloads?

Keep, move, modernize or retire. A framework built around risk, cost and operational fit.

Explore the framework
AI Coding Guardrails: behavior, scope and evidence

AI CODING / FREE FIRST LESSON

Stop accepting “it works”.

Give a coding agent a task you can verify. Follow a Python validator example through a clear task contract, 16 acceptance cases and four deliberately broken implementations that challenge the evidence.

English · approximately 18 minutes · Python 3.9+

Watch lesson 1 on YouTube ↗Explore the course + lab ↗

The first lesson of a planned eight-part video series is available. The seven continuation videos are in preparation.

Lesson notes and a practical task-contract example →

01 / Practical guides

Start with a real decision.

Field guides for the questions that come before the implementation.

All articles & guides
AI & WORKFLOW

Make the first AI workflow useful.

Define permitted sources, human approval and a measurable pilot before expanding the scope.

Read the AI pilot guide
SECURITY

Make security part of operations.

Explore the Enterprise Security Hardening book, covering infrastructure, cloud, containers and databases.

Explore the book
CLOUD & DELIVERY

From a good idea to a working system.

Books, field guides and operator notes on AI, cloud, DevOps, FinOps and security.

Open the playbook
CLOUDPEAKIFY / LEARNING STORE

Put it into practice.

Practical resources for developers, DevOps and platform teams. Start with a free checklist, or continue with the course and security kit.

FREE CHECKLIST

Is your repo ready for a coding agent?

Review five boundaries before adding an agent: instructions, executable acceptance, secret isolation, tool permissions and change approval. Includes an editable CSV scorecard.

Get the free checklist
WRITTEN COURSE + LABS

AI coding guardrails for DevOps

Eight learning modules and four practical labs. Define agent tasks, acceptance criteria, Terraform plans and deployment approval. Watch the first video lesson above.

Explore the paid course
SECURITY KIT

MCP and AI agent operations

Tool permission matrices, a prompt-injection threat model, risk registers and incident workflows for teams connecting agents to real tools.

Explore the paid kit
02 / CLOUD PULSE

Follow the changes that matter.

Release notes from Google Cloud, AWS and Azure. Follow the source for full details and availability.

Google Cloud · AWS · Azure

Saved snapshot compiled: 18 Oct 2026, 05:14 UTC

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Check the provider’s release notes:

Titles and descriptions may use the original source language.

03 / Briefing archive

A record of the technology conversation.

Previously published, AI-assisted IT briefings. Browse by publication date; these are historical summaries, not current news.

Showing 6 of 198 · Latest briefing: 9 August 2026

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