Mary Writes

Conveniently collecting together the different articles I write in various places. If you like my writing, remember that you can buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/marybranscombe

Never mind clean data. Annotate as you collect it.

CIO.com

Mary Branscombe
Aug 5

Synthetic data’s fine line between reward and disaster

CIO.com

Mary Branscombe
Aug 5

When is data too clean to be useful for enterprise AI?

CIO.com

Mary Branscombe
Aug 5

The rise of the agent runtime: The compute platform behind production agents

The New Stack

Mary Branscombe
Jul 29

Why there is so much enthusiasm about Buildkite

The Stack

Mary Branscombe
Jul 13

What is npm doing to protect the JavaScript ecosystem – and is it enough?

The Stack

Mary Branscombe
Jun 17

How to secure Kubernetes in the age of AI workloads

The New Stack

Mary Branscombe
Jun 8

Microsoft's new models give it a better moat

The Stack

Mary Branscombe
Jun 8

Majorana 1: Microsoft Makes Quantum Computing Breakthrough With New Chip

The New Stack

Mary Branscombe
Jun 2

Edera gives Kubernetes the missing metrics for more efficient AI scheduling

The Stack

Mary Branscombe
Jun 2

How Microsoft made its Answers forum less useful

AskWoody

Mary Branscombe
May 20

CIOs are put to the test as security regulations across borders recalibrate

CIO.com

Mary Branscombe
May 14

Yes, Java Still Matters in the AI Era

The New Stack

Mary Branscombe
Apr 8

Copa: 'The missing piece' for automating patching containers at scale

The Stack

Mary Branscombe
Mar 31

Get off the never-ending vulnerability piñata that is Ingress NGINX

The Stack

Mary Branscombe
Mar 19

All my posts about Temporal

The New Stack

Mary Branscombe
Mar 11

State of the Edge Report 2026: Space is the ultimate edge

State of the Edge

Mary Branscombe
Mar 9

What AX can do to deliver cohesion and uniformity to AI agents

CIO

Mary Branscombe
Mar 2

Control power to your display

AskWoody

Mary Branscombe
Feb 9

What to do when your PC won't stay asleep

Ask Woody

Mary Branscombe
Feb 9

Kata containers: the overlooked Kubernetes workload isolation for secure AI

The Stack

Mary Branscombe
Feb 9

Secure messaging on Windows with Signal

AskWoody

Mary Branscombe
Jan 28

How File Explorer can show the files you want — quickly

AskWooody

Mary Branscombe
Jan 12

Delete your user profile to clean up Windows Settings and defaults

Ask Woody

Mary Branscombe
Jan 12

How Azure Copilot’s New Agents Automate DevOps and SecOps

The New Stack

Mary Branscombe
Nov 18 '25

NATS: The event bus that tries to have it all

The Stack

Mary Branscombe
Nov 17 '25

Why a Linux distro becoming a CNCF project matters

The Stack

Mary Branscombe
Nov 17 '25

Do you want to run your own registry – and is Harbor the solution?

The Stack

Mary Branscombe
Nov 17 '25

Aspire brings .NET the enterprise tooling it always needed

The Stack

Mary Branscombe
Nov 17 '25

Is your platform engineering mature enough to need Radius?

The Stack

Mary Branscombe
Nov 17 '25

Can OpenStack really replace VMware in organizations that still need to run their own virtualisation?

The Stack

Mary Branscombe
Nov 17 '25

State of the Edge 2022:Data centres in space

State of the Edge

Mary Branscombe
Nov 4 '25

State of the Edge 2022: Is It the Cloud or the Edge? (It's Both)

State of the Edge

Mary Branscombe
Nov 4 '25

State of the Edge 2022: Born in the cloud, works at the edge

State of the Edge

Mary Branscombe
Nov 4 '25

State of the edge 2020: hardware

State of the Edge

Mary Branscombe
Nov 4 '25

Can Arduino teach Qualcomm how to talk to developers?

The New Stack

Mary Branscombe
Nov 2 '25

Talos Linux: Rethink running Kubernetes

The Stack

Mary Branscombe
Oct 28 '25

XSLT Debate Leads To Bigger Questions of Web Governance

The New Stack

Mary Branscombe
Oct 27 '25