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MAY 28, 2026 AI ENABLEMENT

LLM production readiness for EU enterprise teams.

SP By Sebastiaan van Parijs / Founder

Most LLM pilots succeed. Most LLM production deployments fail. The difference lives in four layers pilots never test.

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MAY 21, 2026 FINOPS

Tagging debt compounds. Start with the policy, not the tags.

DZ By Danny Zak / FinOps Lead

Every untagged resource today costs three times to fix. Teams that enforce at creation spend three seconds. Teams that tag retroactively spend hours.

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MAY 14, 2026 PLATFORM ENGINEERING

Internal developer platform: build, buy, or assemble.

MV By Maikel Vlasman / Cloud Architect

Most teams asking whether to build or buy an IDP are asking too early. There is a prior question that determines the answer.

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MAY 07, 2026 FINOPS

Kubernetes cost visibility is an engineering problem.

DZ By Danny Zak / FinOps Lead

Your cluster runs at 68% CPU. The FinOps review says €180,000 a month. Neither number tells you which team owns which slice.

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APR 23, 2026 FINOPS

Commitment discounts: the math most teams get wrong.

DZ By Danny Zak / FinOps Lead

The wrong commitment strategy costs an average of 11 percent of the compute bill. The math starts with one different question.

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APR 09, 2026 PLATFORM ENGINEERING

Platform engineering versus DevOps is the wrong question.

SP By Sebastiaan van Parijs / Founder

Platform engineering is what DevOps looks like when it works at scale. Most teams asking the question are already on the path.

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