Context·Agents·Platform Engineering
10 Best Practices for AI Context Management
Most teams managing AI context are using markdown files. Here's what better looks like.
Craig Tracey ·
The revenue risk your CRM can't see.
Practical field notes on finding the evidence your CRM, health score, and forecast leave out.
Platform Engineering·Context
The Service Catalog Problem Isn't Backstage. It's the Catalog.
Backstage is hard to run and Cortex and OpsLevel made it easier. None of them changed what a catalog is: a human-authored approximation that drifts.
Craig Tracey ·
AI·Agents·Platform Engineering
Building AI Agents: The Fundamentals
Twelve rules for building AI agents that actually work. What agents are, how the agentic loop works, and the mental models that matter.
Craig Tracey ·
Platform Engineering·Agents·Context
Internal Developer Portals vs Context Layers
IDPs were built for humans browsing catalogs. Agents need queryable relationships, real-time state, and cross-system reasoning. IDPs cannot close that gap.
Craig Tracey ·
Platform Engineering
Service Catalog vs Live Ontology: Why Static Catalogs Fail
Service catalogs promised a single source of truth for your infrastructure. Why they go stale, what a live ontology gives you, and when each one fits.
Craig Tracey ·
Platform Engineering
Blast Radius in Software Engineering: Meaning, Examples & Analysis
See how blast radius analysis traces services, dependencies, owners, and affected customers before a software or infrastructure change ships.
Craig Tracey ·
AI·MCP·Platform Engineering
Introducing SixDegree: Live Operational State for the Agentic Enterprise
Introducing SixDegree: live operational state for the agentic enterprise, auto-derived from your systems of record and served to AI agents via MCP.
Craig Tracey ·