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• Platform engineering - Xebia: Why internal engineering precedes external excellence

  Adrian Bridgwater 06 Aug 2025

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Kiran Madhunapantula, COO, product & platform engineering at AI-driven automation company Xebia. Madhunapantula writes ...

• What to expect from Workday Rising USA 2025

  Adrian Bridgwater 05 Aug 2025

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is off to work… at (with) Workday.  With Workday Rising USA 2025 once again staged in the expansive bowels of San Francisco’s Moscone Center, the event this ...

• Accenture on SLMs: Beyond the benchmarks

  Adrian Bridgwater 04 Aug 2025

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Fernando Lucini, data science and machine learning engineering lead at Accenture. Lucini writes in full as follows... ...

• Elastic CPO: Standing on the (platform engineering) shoulders of giants

  Adrian Bridgwater 01 Aug 2025

This is a guest post by Ken Exner in his role as chief product officer at Elastic. Exner writes in full as follows... It’s no secret that software developers are under intense pressure. Leadership ...

• Stack Overflow on platform engineering, it's a people (not platform) thing first

  Adrian Bridgwater 29 Jul 2025

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Peter O’Connor, senior director of engineering at Stack Overflow. Reminding us that platform engineering promises to tame ...

• Platform engineering - Anaconda: It’s a journey, not a destination

  Adrian Bridgwater 25 Jul 2025

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ken Thompson in his capacity as VP of engineering at Anaconda. Thompson writes in full as follows… Organisations are ...

• Platform engineering - Percona: Driving data in the new normal

  Adrian Bridgwater 22 Jul 2025

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Michal Nosek, senior enterprise architect at Percona. Nosek writes in full as follows... Platform engineering is about ...

• F5 expands AI-XOps automation & customisation controls

  Adrian Bridgwater 21 Jul 2025

As part of a recent round of platform updates, the Computer Weekly Developer Network notes that F5 has announced new tools to reduce the complexity that cross-functional operations (XOps) teams ...

• Perforce puts agentic functions in test scripts

  Adrian Bridgwater 18 Jul 2025

AI ubiquity is driving every vendor worth its salt to detail new functions in its platform. Where we (as the IT industry) were once obsessed with AI, then retrieval augmented generation and then ...

• Clarifai drives agentic AI development with MCP server hosting & OpenAI compatibility

  Adrian Bridgwater 16 Jul 2025

Clarifai is a full-stack AI platform company... and the organisation has announced software designed to help build AI agents. By integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) server hosting with ...

• Platform engineering - Zencoder: Inside AI, build once... scale everywhere

  Adrian Bridgwater 15 Jul 2025

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Andrew Filev in his capacity as CEO of Zencoder. Zencoder is an AI coding agent platform designed to accelerate software ...

• Platform engineering - Mirantis: A route to resilience & compliance as-a-Service

  Adrian Bridgwater 10 Jul 2025

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by William Rizzo in his capacity as strategy lead for Mirantis. Mirantis is known for its approach designed to simplify cloud ...

• Platform engineering - Composio: Agent connectivity is the new infrastructure challenge

  Adrian Bridgwater 08 Jul 2025

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Soham Ganatra, founder of Composio – the company provides infrastructure for connecting AI agents to external tools, APIs ...

• Platform engineering - BairesDev: Maturity is redefining talent

  Adrian Bridgwater 07 Jul 2025

This is a guest post written by Justice Erolin in his role, Chief Technology Officer, BairesDev, a nearshore software development and staff augmentation company.  Erolin writes in full as follows…  ...

• Cycloid on AI in platform engineering: acceleration, or technical debt on fast forward?

  Adrian Bridgwater 03 Jul 2025

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Benjamin Brial, founder, Cycloid. Brial writes in full as follows... As AI continues to infiltrate every corner of the ...