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Developers Are People: The Psychology of Software Teams

https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/05/11/developers-are-people-the-psychology-of-software-teams/

Published: May 11, 2026 00:00

There is a stubborn myth in tech that good software work is mostly about tools, velocity, and individual brilliance. If the metrics look good and features ship on time, everything else is secondary. People will adapt. Teams will sort themselves out.…

Jet Plane Blues

https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/05/04/jet-plane-blues/

Published: May 4, 2026 00:00

Neditor’s note: When I wrote this a few months ago, I really wasn’t sure I was going to publish it. It felt too raw, too personal, and too self-pitying. I shared it with a friend, who gave me constructive feedback that boiled down to: Tech ate your life a…

How to Set Up an Exchange Online Mailbox for OpenClaw

https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/05/01/how-to-set-up-an-exchange-online-mailbox-for-openclaw/

Published: May 1, 2026 00:00

I wanted to give OpenClaw its own mailbox in Microsoft 365 so it could read mail, send messages, and generally act like a useful automation agent without piggybacking on my personal account. The trick was doing it in a way that was secure, auditable, and…

Actually Implementing AI

https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/04/29/actually-implementing-ai/

Published: April 29, 2026 00:00

There is no shortage of AI content right now. Unfortunately, a lot of it lives somewhere between breathless hype and thinly disguised marketing copy. Every vendor claims AI will transform software delivery, replace half your team, and solve all your…

Commvault Cloud Expands to Google Cloud: Protecting BigQuery and Beyond

https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/04/25/commvault-cloud-expands-to-google-cloud-protecting-bigquery-and-beyond/

Published: April 25, 2026 00:00

Your workloads are probably spread across multiple clouds. That’s nothing new, but what I hadn’t heard before is that 84% of organizations are using two or more cloud providers for critical services. That’s not shocking, but I also didn’t realize the…

Open Source Malware, NPM, and the Risk of Helpful AI

https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/04/14/open-source-malware-npm-and-the-risk-of-helpful-ai/

Published: April 14, 2026 00:00

I don’t think most practitioners spend a lot of time worrying about malware hidden inside an open source package. We worry about vulnerable code, sure. We worry about breaking changes, unplanned upgrades, and the occasional dependency rabbit hole. But…

The State of Platform Engineering and DevEx

https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/04/13/the-state-of-platform-engineering-and-devex/

Published: April 13, 2026 00:00

Platform engineering can be a slippery term because it means different things depending on where you sit. For some teams it means golden paths, paved roads, and internal platforms. For others it means the group that owns all the infrastructure glue no one…

Passing the AI-900 Exam

https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/02/04/passing-the-ai-900-exam/

Published: February 4, 2026 00:00

As I mentioned in my planning for 2026 post, I wanted to get the AI-900 and AI-102 certifications from Microsoft as part of a larger goal of learning more about AI Engineering and being able to deliver Microsoft Training in that area. Good news! Last week…

Beginning AI Engineering

https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/01/07/beginning-ai-engineering/

Published: January 7, 2026 00:00

Recently I’ve become interested in AI Engineering as a discipline. As an infrastructure guy, data science and analysis has always fascinated me, but I felt woefully unprepared to work with it. When I was in college, I took a course on relational databases…

Planning for 2026

https://nedinthecloud.com/2026/01/02/planning-for-2026/

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

Plans. What are these silly things we make? Each year I write a planning post for the coming 12 months for the sole purpose of having something to laugh at when the annum ends. As this has become a tradition, I see no reason to stop with 2026. What bold…