Tag: #governance
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 11 posts
Open Source Worth Watching Right Now (6) What Star Counts Do Not Tell You
A star count is a popularity metric, not a risk metric. This post lays out the signals you actually have to check before you bring an open source project into production: recent commits and release cadence, issue respons
2026-08-12 · 6 min read #open-source#governance#supply-chain#risk#devopsWhat Replaces Technology — And How to Check Whether Your Stack Sits on That Trajectory
The final part of this series on open source projects that gave up their place. Cutting across the thirty-odd projects covered in the previous three parts, it distils five forces that replace technology: platform absorpt
2026-08-12 · 7 min read #open-source#architecture#license#migration#governanceBus Factor Is Not the Number of People Who Know the Code but the Number of People Who Can Decide
The Nixpkgs core team disbanded after ten months. In a repository with thousands of contributors, the people holding delegated decision-making authority numbered two, and when those two stepped down that jurisdiction was
2026-08-09 · 9 min read #devops#open-source#governance#nix#supply-chainWhen Open Source Governance Breaks Down — The Ruby Central Dispute and Three Axes of Control
On July 30, 2026, André Arko published "Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy," bringing the RubyGems repository access dispute that began in September 2025 back to the surface after ten months. This post lays out the primar
2026-07-31 · 15 min read #open-source#governance#rubygems#supply-chain#licensingGCC's AI Policy and Open Source's Choice — What Is the 15-Line Boundary Actually Protecting
On July 29, 2026, the GCC steering committee adopted the recommendations of its AI Policy Working Group. The core rule is that legally significant contributions containing or derived from LLM-generated content will not b
2026-07-31 · 12 min read #ai#open-source#gcc#licensing#governanceThe New Space Race — How Private Industry Is Opening the Space Age
Reusable rockets have driven the cost of reaching orbit sharply down, shifting space from a government monopoly to a private stage. We look in a balanced way at the cost revolution, satellites, the Moon and Mars, orbital
2026-06-21 · 45 min read #space#rockets#satellites#governance#sciencePlatform Engineering in Banking — The Marriage of Backstage and Governance
What platform engineering offers in a banking environment where approvals and security procedures stretch lead times to weeks. Covers Backstage golden paths with regulatory requirements built in, Scaffolder actions wired
2026-06-13 · 16 min read #devops#platform-engineering#backstage#finance#governanceWhose Words Does the AI Speak — The German Ruling That Made Google Liable for AI Overviews
In June 2026 a German court classified Google AI Overviews not as a listing of search results but as speech by Google itself, holding the company directly liable for false answers. We dissect the reasoning, the clash wit
2026-06-12 · 22 min read #ai#law#liability#rag#governanceAzure AI Foundry Agent Service Practical Guide: Enterprise Deployment Decisions for 2026
A practical, current guide to Azure AI Foundry Agent Service for enterprise teams, focused on why managed agents matter, how the tool catalog and remote MCP servers work, and how to make rollout decisions around tracing,
2026-04-12 · 5 min read #azure#azure-ai-foundry#agent-service#ai-agent#mcpAI Ethics & Responsible AI Developer Guide 2025: Everything About Bias, Fairness, Transparency & Regulation
Complete AI Ethics Guide! Algorithmic bias detection/mitigation, fairness metrics (Demographic Parity/Equal Opportunity), Explainable AI (SHAP/LIME), EU AI Act compliance, AI governance frameworks, and developer ethical
2026-03-23 · 29 min read #ai-ethics#responsible-ai#bias#fairness#transparencyThe UN AI Governance Era Begins: 2026 Marks a Turning Point in Global AI Regulation
In March 2026, the UN AI Governance Advisory Board released its first global framework, bridging the gap between EU's binding regulations and US self-regulation. The future of global AI safety standards hangs in the bala
2026-03-16 · 7 min read #ai#governance#regulation#eu-ai-act#united-nations