Mark Burgess shipped CFEngine in 1993, formalized promise theory with Siri Fagernes around 2005, and published *In Search of Certainty* in 2015, but four generations of infrastructure tools—Chef, Pupp…
Adam Jacob, co-founder of Chef, has raised $6.25 million for Swamp, a startup building deterministic AI-agent automation for operational workflows. The SEC filing by Elder Swamp Club Inc. shows $6,249…
GitHub announced general availability of managed Copilot settings deployment via MDM and file-based configuration for VS Code and CLI, enabling enterprise administrators to enforce governance policies…
Pulumi co-founder Paul Stack argues that infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools have historically failed to deliver on their promise of supporting "any system" because their provider ecosystems rely on hu…
Infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Kubernetes impose a "200% learning tax" by requiring users to master both the tool's abstraction and the underlying cloud API, with knowledge failing to…
Adam Jacob, creator of Chef, launched Swamp, a new tool for adaptive workflows and deterministic automation for AI agents, at CfgMgmtCamp in February. Early adopter and developer Paul Stack reported t…
Terraform, Chef, Puppet, and CFEngine users were never declaring state — they were manually observing their infrastructure and writing those observations into files for tools that could not see for th…