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Building vs. Buying your platform: The honest framework nobody discusses

Most organizations get the build versus buy decision wrong in the same way. They underestimate the cost of building while overestimating the cost of buying. In the recent Konstruct monthly webinar with M R Rishi (Platform Engineer at Civo), we explored the discussion surrounding whether you should build or buy your platform. If you want to watch the full discussion, watch the recording here.

Creating an agentic feedback loop with reliability guardrails

Reliability guardrails help make sure that your applications stay reliable without slowing down. In an earlier blog, we went into why agentic AI development needs reliability guardrails. It went over how the increased speed of AI development demands automated guardrails to verify resilience and what kinds of tests these guardrails should cover. But that’s only the beginning. By themselves, guardrails act as a gate to ensure resilience mechanisms hold under rapid changes.

The secret behind Carnegie's fortune and the lesson for the AI era

Point A: 1835. Andrew Carnegie is born in a weaver’s cottage in Dunfermline, Scotland. The cottage has one main room, which the Carnegies share with another family. Point B: 1901. Andrew Carnegie becomes the richest man in the world when Carnegie Steel Company wins the Iron vs. Steel industrialists’ war, and he sells the company to J.P. Morgan for the modern equivalent of $450 billion.

Azure FinOps with AI: What's New in Turbo360 v5.2

Turbo360 v5.2 is the biggest AI update we've shipped. Every module now has AI built in - not just to surface data, but to explain it, guide you through it, and help non-experts take action without needing to call in a specialist. In this video, Mike Stephenson walks through every new feature in v5.2, from AI agents that explain cost drivers and rightsizing recommendations, to a brand new Savings Tracker that gives you a better way to prove FinOps impact to management.

Turbo360 for System Integrators: Grow Your Azure Practice

If you deliver Azure integration solutions for clients, this video is for you. Fragmented tooling, unpredictable bills, and support incidents that eat into your consultancy time — these are the problems that limit how fast SI partners can scale. Turbo360 helps you solve all three, and turn each one into a business growth opportunity. In this video, Turbo360 CTO Mike Stephenson (Microsoft MVP) walks through how system integrator partners are using Turbo360 to deliver better outcomes for clients, reduce support overhead, and build managed service revenue alongside their integration practice.

Agentic Pipelines now supports OpenAI Codex

Bring your Codex agent into Bitbucket Pipelines. A few weeks ago, we announced support for Claude agents in Bitbucket Pipelines. Today, we’re adding OpenAI Codex as a supported agent. If your team is already using Codex on the desktop, you can now move that same workflow into your pipeline — triggered by a merge, a schedule, a failing build, or a pull request comment.

How AI is changing platform engineering

AI is changing software development fast. But what does that actually mean for platform engineering teams? In this conversation, Civo's John Dietz and M R Rishi dig into what they're seeing on the ground, the 10x effect of AI on app count, what it means for platform team workloads, the debugging skills that are quietly being lost, and whether Kubernetes itself might eventually become just another abstraction.

How Kubernetes Operators May Conflict With Resource Optimization (And How to Avoid It)

A Kubernetes Operator is a method of packaging, deploying, and managing a Kubernetes application. It extends the native Kubernetes API by combining custom resources (CRDs) with a dedicated controller: a custom control loop that continuously watches the state of those resources. The primary purpose of an operator is to automate complex, stateful applications (like databases, message queues, or monitoring suites) that require human operational knowledge to maintain.