The role of MCP in context engineering

There’s no denying the excitement around Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open protocol for connecting AI assistants with external data, tools, and APIs. Since its debut by Anthropic in late 2024, thousands of MCP servers have emerged for devops, cloud, and beyond....

AI still needs humans

The backlash was inevitable. For the past year, Silicon Valley has been telling us that software development is on the verge of becoming a prompt-and-ship exercise. You know, just describe what you want and let an AI coding agent build it. Sure, maybe you could keep a...

The sovereign cloud illusion

The phrase “sovereign cloud” has become one of the most overused and least scrutinized terms in enterprise technology. It sounds reassuring, especially to governments, regulated industries, and any enterprise concerned about geopolitical instability. The promise is...