Mark Beacom

Agentic AI governance, platform engineering, and cloud architecture. With detours into mycology, and life in Northeastern Ohio.

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September 24, 2025
IBM's New HashiCorp Partner Badges: A Practitioner's Guide to the Evolution of Partner Enablement
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After completing all six new IBM HashiCorp partner badges, I'm sharing why the shift from bootcamps to self-service training is a game-changer. These Practitioner Advanced tracks deliver the same deep expertise as CHIP, but with unprecedented accessibility.
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September 15, 2025
From Pair Programmer to Project Lead: Spec Driven Development with Kiro
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Explore how Kiro IDE moves beyond simple AI code completion to true Spec Driven Development (SDD), turning your AI from a pair programmer into an agentic project lead that executes approved architectural plans.
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September 9, 2025
Beyond 'Vibe-Coding': Scaling AI with GitHub Spec Kit
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Stop 'vibe-coding' with AI. Learn how GitHub's Spec Kit uses Spec-Driven Development to move from ad-hoc prompts to a scalable, governable, and intent-driven workflow.
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August 1, 2026
An Unenforceable ADR Is a Wish: Building adrkit
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Most ADR tooling is a markdown template and a static site generator. That records a decision; it does not make the decision do anything. adrkit treats a decision record as typed data with a markdown body, adds one field that lets a tool answer "which decisions govern this pull request?", and exposes the graveyard of rejected ideas to the agents now writing your plans.
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July 27, 2026
Agents Are Production Actors Now: The SDLC Needs a Control Plane
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A new GitHub certification just exited beta, and its exam blueprint is a leading indicator worth reading closely: the industry has decided AI agents are production actors inside the software development lifecycle—and that they need supervision, evaluation, and accountability from the platform they already run on.
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July 12, 2026
Re-Credentialing the Whole Stack: Reaching Full Capability on a New Cloud
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When a seasoned multi-cloud architect takes on another hyperscaler, the fastest path to full capability is to re-credential the entire stack deliberately. Doing that surfaced something bigger than platform syntax: AI has quietly added a whole new operating layer that every enterprise architect now has to span.
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September 24, 2025
IBM's New HashiCorp Partner Badges: A Practitioner's Guide to the Evolution of Partner Enablement
ibm hashicorp vault terraform devops cloudnative partners certification
After completing all six new IBM HashiCorp partner badges, I'm sharing why the shift from bootcamps to self-service training is a game-changer. These Practitioner Advanced tracks deliver the same deep expertise as CHIP, but with unprecedented accessibility.
Read more →
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September 15, 2025
From Pair Programmer to Project Lead: Spec Driven Development with Kiro
kiro sdd genai vscode developer-tools ai-agents amazon demo ai devops open-source llm architecture governance frameworks vibe-coding
Explore how Kiro IDE moves beyond simple AI code completion to true Spec Driven Development (SDD), turning your AI from a pair programmer into an agentic project lead that executes approved architectural plans.
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