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Thinking from the OpsCanvas team on AI in the cloud, context graphs, platform engineering, and what it means to run infrastructure in an agent-driven world.

I Drove 1,800 Miles to Pick Up My Daughter from College. I Brought AI Along for the Ride.

What a graduation road trip taught me about where AI is actually useful, where it still falls short, and why context is the product.

Context is the product. Everything else is a feature.

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Cloud Operations

Preparing Your CloudOps for an AI Future

The shift from AI copilots to autonomous agents is not a capability problem. It is a context problem, and solving it starts with understanding how cloud decisions are actually made.

January 20, 2026

Founder Perspective

From Cloud Chaos to Clarity: Why We Built OpsCanvas

When we ran Signal Vine, we loved the cloud's flexibility and had no idea what it was actually doing. Surprise bills, forgotten environments, and a 5,000 crypto mining incident -- that confusion is where OpsCanvas began.

Time to Eliminate the Zombies: What the Oracle Cloud Breach Tells Us

Oracle confirmed a breach in a legacy environment unused since 2017. Zombie infrastructure -- forgotten, unpatched, still connected -- is one of the most exploitable attack surfaces in cloud security.

Wyn Van Devanter

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