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Written perspectives and podcast episodes from the Active Logic team — on engineering leadership, technology strategy, and building software that works.
Why Vibe Coding Isn't Enough for Production Software
Written Insights
Articles
Your Software Needs an MCP Server, Not Just an API
Salesforce just shipped Headless 360 and the Agentic Experience layer. Every capability as an API, MCP tool, or CLI. Agent-first is the new bar, and retrofitting into it is not a weekend project.
Bugs, Edge Cases, and the Beta State Every Honest Product Lives In
Zero-bug guarantees are a semantic game vendors play. The honest product is fast triage, a real fix cadence, and a conversation that happens before launch.
The Reinvestment Most Companies Skip: What to Put Back Into Your Own Technology, by Revenue
Companies reinvest in marketing and hiring without thinking twice. Reinvestment in software they actually own is the line item that quietly gets zeroed out. AI has changed the math on that decision, and most leadership teams have not recalculated.
You're Not Buying Software. You're Buying Risk.
Enterprises write eight-figure software contracts, startups write four-figure ones, and the software often looks identical. The gap is not the product. It is the risk the buyer is actually transferring.
Open Source CXO
Podcast Episodes
Digital Transformation with Purpose: How Unbound Scales Global Impact
How Unbound, a nonprofit serving 280,000+ families across 17 countries, uses modern technology and AI to reduce photo processing from 90 days to just 3.
From Data Centers to Decision-Making: Tech Governance in Higher Education
Ottawa University CTO Adam Caylor discusses multi-campus IT infrastructure, technology governance, ERP challenges, and strategic IT leadership in higher ed.
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