Archive of posts with category 'AI'

MCP Apps: Interactive Dashboards Inside Your AI Conversations

If you’ve been working with AI agents lately, you’ve probably hit a limitation: the agent can describe what it found, but it can’t show you anything interactive. Your agent finishes...

GitHub Copilot's Agentic Memory: Teaching AI to Remember and Learn Your Codebase

One of the biggest challenges with AI coding assistants has been their stateless nature with every interaction starting from scratch, requiring developers to repeatedly explain coding conventions, architectural patterns, and...

Beyond Planning: How GitHub Spec Kit Transforms Ideas into Implementation

In my journey exploring agentic DevOps tools, I’ve previously written about delivering major enhancements using Awesome Copilot and GitHub’s built-in Plan Agent. Each tool has pushed the boundaries of what’s...

From Awesome Copilot to Plan Agent: GitHub's Built-in Planning Revolution

In my previous post about delivering major enhancements using agentic DevOps, I shared how I leveraged GitHub’s Awesome Copilot repository to access proven prompts and agents for creating implementation plans....

Azure Copilot Agents: Transforming Cloud Operations

Microsoft Ignite 2025 has delivered what might be the most transformative announcement for cloud operations teams: Azure Copilot Agents. This isn’t just another AI assistant, it’s a fundamental reimagining of...

Welcome Home, Agents: How GitHub Copilot Agent HQ is Transforming Development Workflows

The development landscape has fundamentally shifted. We’re no longer working with simple AI assistants that complete our code,we’re orchestrating fleets of specialised agents that can take on entire features, collaborate...

Building a Star Wars E-Commerce Empire with GitHub Spark: A Weekend DevOps Story

As a DevOps professional whose primary expertise lies in infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence rather than frontend development, I’ve always faced a persistent challenge: creating functional, presentable web applications for...

Delivering Major Enhancements Without Writing Code: My Agentic DevOps Journey

As a busy professional, I found myself in a familiar situation, needing to deliver a major enhancement to an internal solution while managing my regular day-to-day responsibilities. The challenge wasn’t...

Agentic DevOps Safe Mode: A Practical Framework for Secure GitHub Copilot Agents

Agentic DevOps promises AI agents that understand requirements, write code, and manage workflows. GitHub Copilot Coding Agent is the next step. The enterprise question isn’t ‘can AI help?’, it’s ‘can...

DevOps and AI Series: Azure Private MCP Registry

The rapid adoption of AI-powered development tools has fundamentally changed how organisations approach software delivery. As teams increasingly rely on Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to enhance their AI capabilities,...

Agentic DevOps: Getting the Most Out of GitHub Copilot's Coding Agent

The evolution of DevOps continues to accelerate, and we’re now entering the era of Agentic DevOps where AI agents don’t just assist with code completion, but actively participate in the...

GitHub Copilot DevOps Excellence: Prompt Files vs Instructions vs Chat Modes

As we venture deeper into 2025, GitHub Copilot has evolved far beyond a simple code completion tool. The introduction of prompt files, custom instructions, and custom chat modes has transformed...

DevOps: Dead or Evolved?

DevOps: Dead or Evolved? For years, DevOps was the buzzword that transformed how we build software. It united developers and IT operations, breaking down silos, improving collaboration, and accelerating delivery....

DevOps and AI Series: Managing AI Models

Welcome back to our series on AI and DevOps! In our previous post, we laid the groundwork for deploying AI landing zones within a DevOps framework. Today, we’re going to...

DevOps and AI Series: Landing Zones

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and DevOps practices is revolutionising how organisations manage their infrastructure and streamline operations. This blog post, the first in...