https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/ Technical and executive articles on software architecture, AI-assisted engineering, FinOps, engineering leadership and technology governance. en https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-11-04/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-11-04/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: AWS says committed capacity is largely sold out through 2027, Grok Bot hits a cost wall while power users spend six figures on tokens, Docker argues agent security is an isolation problem, Shopify learns that the repository shows intent and the cluster shows reality, ECS Gateway ships with sharp edges, and GitHub makes cost-center chargeback scriptable. Tech Radar FinOps cloud capacity planning AI engineering agentic AI DevSecOps platform engineering https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-11-03/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-11-03/ Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: AWS turns Step Functions workflows into agent tools, Uber governs 5,000+ agent tools behind an MCP gateway, GitHub blocks pull_request_target by default, Atlassian finds AI time savings collapsing into review work, Big Tech AI capex strains free cash flow, and LinkedIn traces the member journey end to end with OpenTelemetry. Tech Radar AI engineering agentic AI MCP DevSecOps FinOps observability engineering leadership https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-10-05/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-10-05/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: Epic pauses product development after an AI model surfaces critical flaws, Google freezes its open source bug bounty under AI slop, Gemini 4 Argon targets defensive security, Denmark loses its citizen register through a partner's lawful access, hard spend caps arrive on AWS and Google Cloud, Reflection ships a cheaper open-weight model, and HackerRank lets an AI run the interview. Tech Radar security AI engineering FinOps cloud open models engineering leadership hiring https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-09-11/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-09-11/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra with a critical cybersecurity rating, agent observability turns into cost control, GitLab and Google redraw the trust boundary, Netflix cuts Flink spend by 58%, LinkedIn distils a 0.6B ranker, Shopify goes back to native mobile, and Automattic's board removes its founder-CEO. Tech Radar AI engineering agentic coding observability FinOps security engineering leadership https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-08-28/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-08-28/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: Nvidia is reported in talks to buy Hugging Face for over $13B, small models cross the cost threshold that makes consumer AI viable, Cloudflare frees 100TB of RAM with five struct changes, Meta puts the network inside the accelerator, AKS warns that cost automation needs disruption governance, Google Cloud ships database agents, and a federal judge calls the Pentagon blacklisting of Anthropic illegal. Tech Radar FinOps AI engineering cloud platform engineering data engineering leadership https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-08-21/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-08-21/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: GitHub publishes a capacity postmortem, JetBrains puts weekly agent use at 90%, Cursor launches a GitHub rival, Cloudflare turns standards into enforcement, AWS gives agents 14-day runtimes, Wiz finds S3 clones missing S3 security, and Azure DevOps ships an MCP server no third-party client can use. Tech Radar AI engineering agentic coding platform engineering cloud security engineering leadership https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-08-11/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-08-11/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: Claude Code turns auto mode on by default, Meta enters the terminal-agent race, GitHub puts AI spend next to payroll, OpenCost prices the token, Anthropic watermarks its output, the AI security arms race gets concrete, and 2026 layoffs pass all of 2025. Tech Radar AI engineering agentic coding FinOps security engineering leadership https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-08-05/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-08-05/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: autonomous OpenAI agents breach Hugging Face production during an eval, Cloudflare open-sources its company-wide agent platform, Microsoft ships a governed agent runtime, TypeScript 7 cuts build times ~10x, platform maturity predicts AI ROI, Anthropic locks up $10B in compute, and FinOps gets a standard. Tech Radar AI engineering security platform engineering FinOps engineering leadership https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-07-29/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-07-29/ Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: Anthropic clarifies its position on open weights, a $500 fine-tune of a 9B model beats frontier models, OpenAI ships a security scanner, Dependabot and EKS add brakes, an agent triages your cloud threats, Uber decouples cost from growth, and a $1B bet on securing AI agents. Tech Radar AI engineering open weights FinOps security engineering leadership https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-07-24/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-07-24/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: an OpenAI model that broke out of its sandbox to hack Hugging Face, US labs lobbying against open weights while China ships 2T-plus open models, the debt quietly funding the AI boom, why "software factories" still fail, frontier-level results at a third of the cost, and Terence Tao using ChatGPT as a math sparring partner. Tech Radar AI engineering open weights FinOps security engineering leadership https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-07-15/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-07-15/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: a 27B model that runs on a phone, a Cursor zero-day that went unfixed for seven months, coding CLIs quietly uploading your home directory, an essay on why vibecoded systems drift apart, Oracle downgraded over its AI buildout, and data as the price of admission. Tech Radar AI engineering security FinOps engineering leadership https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-07-06/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-07-06/ Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: OpenAI ships a coding model straight into its agent, a study showing clean code makes agents cheaper rather than smarter, Cloudflare turning every Worker into its own cache, an AI-browser jailbreak built on 2+2=5, Zuckerberg tempering agent timelines, and a warning about building on the statistical average. Tech Radar AI engineering FinOps security engineering leadership https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-07-03/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-07-03/ Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: OpenTelemetry graduates, AWS gives agents their own micro-VMs, Copilot autofixes vulnerabilities in Azure DevOps, Alibaba reportedly bans an AI coding tool, Oracle quietly cuts its free tier, Apple runs confidential compute on Google Cloud, and Virginia bans the sale of location data. Tech Radar AI engineering cloud DevOps security engineering leadership https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-07-02/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-07-02/ Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: Claude Sonnet 5 makes agents cheaper to run, AWS gives every agent its own micro-VM, Copilot lands security autofixes in Azure DevOps, Meta eyes the cloud market, and platform teams grow up. Tech Radar AI engineering cloud DevOps platform engineering engineering leadership https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-06-29/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-06-29/ Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: an open-weight model beating a frontier agent at a sixth of the cost, the return of tokenmaxxing as subsidies vanish, governments gating who can use the best models, coding agents quietly uploading your secrets, and two reminders that engineering discipline still wins. Tech Radar AI engineering FinOps governance engineering leadership https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-06-26/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-06-26/ Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: 2,000 people fail to break an AI email agent, the industry stands up a shared response team for open-source bugs found at AI speed, a builder learns AI code has no taste, IBM goes below 1nm, and Apple bets its Mac silicon on AI. Tech Radar AI engineering security software architecture engineering leadership https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-06-25/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-06-25/ Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: OpenAI's first custom chip, Qualcomm buying Modular, GitHub throttling AI pull-request spam, computer use landing in a cheap Gemini model, infrastructure going free, and why open models and evaluation are the real story. Tech Radar AI engineering cloud engineering leadership FinOps https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-06-16/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-06-16/ Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: SpaceX buys Cursor for $60bn, Cohere open-sources a coding model you can self-host, a fake LinkedIn recruiter ships a backdoor, and the budget cloud quietly triples some prices. Tech Radar AI engineering FinOps security engineering leadership https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-06-12/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/tech-radar-2026-06-12/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT This edition: a runaway agent that burned $6,500 in cloud, Anthropic walking back invisible guardrails, open-weight coding models piling up, a backdoored package repo, and the quiet revolt against vanity engineering metrics. Tech Radar AI engineering FinOps security engineering leadership https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/payment-orchestration-platform/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/payment-orchestration-platform/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT A real Architecture Review Board document: a processor-agnostic payment orchestration layer for high-risk, high-velocity verticals — canonical model, smart routing, double-entry ledger, PCI scope minimization and cloud-agnostic Kubernetes. Diagrams, ADRs and a phased roadmap included. software architecture payments ADR event-driven PCI DSS cloud-agnostic engineering leadership https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/design-md-engineering-practice/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/design-md-engineering-practice/ Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Why a lightweight design document became the highest-leverage engineering practice in my teams — and how it multiplies the quality of AI-assisted development. engineering practices documentation AI-assisted development governance https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/claude-code-agentic-coding/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/claude-code-agentic-coding/ Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI assistants can ship real software — if you give them context, boundaries and quality gates. The operating model we use for AI-assisted development. Claude Code agentic coding AI engineering code review CI/CD https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/finops-architecture/ https://philipscheer.github.io/en/articles/finops-architecture/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Right-sizing and savings plans have a ceiling. The big cloud savings live in architecture decisions — a real case scaling a platform from 100K to 1M+ concurrent users while cutting operating cost in half. FinOps cloud architecture cost optimization real-time systems