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.

Never mind clean data. Annotate as you collect it.

CIO.com

Mary Branscombe

Synthetic data’s fine line between reward and disaster

Synthetic data’s fine line between reward and disaster

CIO.com

Mary Branscombe

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

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

CIO.com

Mary Branscombe

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

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

The New Stack

Mary Branscombe

Why there is so much enthusiasm about Buildkite

Why there is so much enthusiasm about Buildkite

The Stack

Mary Branscombe

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

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

The Stack

Mary Branscombe

How to secure Kubernetes in the age of AI workloads

How to secure Kubernetes in the age of AI workloads

The New Stack

Mary Branscombe

Microsoft's new models give it a better moat

Microsoft's new models give it a better moat

The Stack

Mary Branscombe

Majorana 1: Microsoft Makes Quantum Computing Breakthrough With New Chip

Majorana 1: Microsoft Makes Quantum Computing Breakthrough With New Chip

The New Stack

Mary Branscombe

Edera gives Kubernetes the missing metrics for more efficient AI scheduling

Edera gives Kubernetes the missing metrics for more efficient AI scheduling

The Stack

Mary Branscombe

How Microsoft made its Answers forum less useful

How Microsoft made its Answers forum less useful

AskWoody

Mary Branscombe

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

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

CIO.com

Mary Branscombe

Yes, Java Still Matters in the AI Era

Yes, Java Still Matters in the AI Era

The New Stack

Mary Branscombe

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

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

The Stack

Mary Branscombe

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

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

The Stack

Mary Branscombe

All my posts about Temporal

All my posts about Temporal

The New Stack

Mary Branscombe

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

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

State of the Edge

Mary Branscombe

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

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

CIO

Mary Branscombe

Control power to your display

Control power to your display

AskWoody

Mary Branscombe

What to do when your PC won't stay asleep

What to do when your PC won't stay asleep

Ask Woody

Mary Branscombe

Kata containers: the overlooked Kubernetes workload isolation for secure AI

Kata containers: the overlooked Kubernetes workload isolation for secure AI

The Stack

Mary Branscombe

Secure messaging on Windows with Signal

Secure messaging on Windows with Signal

AskWoody

Mary Branscombe

How File Explorer can show the files you want — quickly

How File Explorer can show the files you want — quickly

AskWooody

Mary Branscombe

Delete your user profile to clean up Windows Settings and defaults

Delete your user profile to clean up Windows Settings and defaults

Ask Woody

Mary Branscombe

How Azure Copilot’s New Agents Automate DevOps and SecOps

How Azure Copilot’s New Agents Automate DevOps and SecOps

The New Stack

Mary Branscombe

NATS: The event bus that tries to have it all

NATS: The event bus that tries to have it all

The Stack

Mary Branscombe

Why a Linux distro becoming a CNCF project matters

Why a Linux distro becoming a CNCF project matters

The Stack

Mary Branscombe

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

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

The Stack

Mary Branscombe

Aspire brings .NET the enterprise tooling it always needed

Aspire brings .NET the enterprise tooling it always needed

The Stack

Mary Branscombe

Is your platform engineering mature enough to need Radius?

Is your platform engineering mature enough to need Radius?

The Stack

Mary Branscombe

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

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

The Stack

Mary Branscombe

State of the Edge 2022:Data centres in space

State of the Edge 2022:Data centres in space

State of the Edge

Mary Branscombe

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

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

State of the Edge

Mary Branscombe

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

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

State of the Edge

Mary Branscombe

State of the edge 2020: hardware

State of the edge 2020: hardware

State of the Edge

Mary Branscombe

Can Arduino teach Qualcomm how to talk to developers?

Can Arduino teach Qualcomm how to talk to developers?

The New Stack

Mary Branscombe

Talos Linux: Rethink running Kubernetes

Talos Linux: Rethink running Kubernetes

The Stack

Mary Branscombe

XSLT Debate Leads To Bigger Questions of Web Governance

XSLT Debate Leads To Bigger Questions of Web Governance

The New Stack

Mary Branscombe