How We Slashed Our CI Pipeline Costs with Developer MacBook Pros

Oct 2, 2025 in From Our Experts, Platform Engineering

How We Slashed Our CI Pipeline Costs with Developer MacBook Pros

Running CI pipelines for multiple developer branches is essential in ensuring code quality and security, but the more devs we had, the more we saw our cloud costs skyrocket.

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Is Your App Lost in the Cloud? How to Bring Order to the Chaos

Sep 24, 2025 in From Our Experts, Platform Engineering

Is Your App Lost in the Cloud? How to Bring Order to the Chaos

In today's fast-paced digital world, deploying applications can feel like navigating a maze. What if there was a standardized 'launchpad' for your applications?

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The Paved Path to Production: Why a True Platform is More than a Blueprint

Sep 10, 2025 in From Our Experts, Platform Engineering

The Paved Path to Production: Why a True Platform is More than a Blueprint

What does a day in the life of a developer in a DoD Software Factory look like? Ideally, it's spent writing mission-critical code.

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From AI-Generated Code to Auditable Deployment: How Pillars of Creation Secures Our Agentic Workflow

Sep 9, 2025 in From Our Experts, Platform Engineering

From AI-Generated Code to Auditable Deployment: How Pillars of Creation Secures Our Agentic Workflow

The promise of AI in software development is no longer a distant future; it's a practical reality.

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3 Laws of Vendor-Lock Safety

Sep 4, 2025 in From Our Experts, Platform Engineering

3 Laws of Vendor-Lock Safety

Vendor lock-in is rarely visible at the start. It hides in the fine print, in proprietary formats, and in opaque APIs. At BrainGu, we believe freedom from lock-in isn't optional—it's the foundation of sustainable innovation.

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Reliability, Engineered in Code: How SmoothGlue Delivers Enterprise Trust

Aug 26, 2025 in From Our Experts, Platform Engineering

Reliability, Engineered in Code: How SmoothGlue Delivers Enterprise Trust

In high-stakes environments, 'good enough' isn't an option. Downtime isn't just inconvenient—it's unacceptable. SmoothGlue's (rs)² architecture delivers enterprise-scale reliability through code, not staff.

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The Control Plane Manifesto

Aug 6, 2025 in From Our Experts, Platform Engineering

The Control Plane Manifesto

Our strategy is to move as much of the "heavy lifting" as possible into the one layer we can guarantee is consistent everywhere

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Breaking Changes, Zero Drama: Big Bang 3.0 with SmoothGlue

Jun 13, 2025 in Platform Engineering

Breaking Changes, Zero Drama: Big Bang 3.0 with SmoothGlue

We’re on a mission to enable developers to ship fast and ship safe, especially in environments where the margin for error is zero.

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Empowering our users with more tools at their disposal...

Nov 8, 2024 in Platform Engineering

Empowering our users with more tools at their disposal...

Our customer’s missions are growing in complexity each day, and we continuously evaluate and add new tools to our platform to meet those customer’s needs.

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