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In Building a PR Review Agent, I showed how we wired gemini-cli into GitHub pull requests.

Most "AI coding" conversations I see online are from small start-ups, or people working alone in isolation.

I've been working a lot with AI recently, both from a product perspective working on Autotrader's Co Driver offering, but also as a Developer, using the myriad of code-assist style tools and agents out there.

I've been working on a couple of different GenAI use cases at Auto Trader: Incident Summaries, which I've talked about here, and one of our more recently announced features, Advert Text Generation, using our significant amount of data to generate meaningf…

We recently upgraded our clusters to 1.29; which gave us access to Kubernetes Native Sidecar containers.

A short and sweet post to share my thoughts around Retry Policies in Istio.

We've had a good run Istio - 1.18 and 1.19 were a breeze compared to previous releases and 1.20 didn't warrant me even writing a blog!

If you're running any reasonably sized HA service on Public Clouds, you'll no doubt be paying the "zone tax".

If you've read some of my other posts such as Alert and Incident enrichment, you'll know that we use Slack to pull together all the interested parties when we experience any sort of problem in a production environment.

The last few years have been hectic.

If you've read my more recent blog post around Scaling the Sidecar, you'll have picked up on the fact that I actually don't like Auto Scaling our workloads.

There's a lot of talk at the moment about Istio's new Ambient Mesh.

We use Elasticsearch as a backend for Jaeger.

At Auto Trader, we strive to build alerts that the majority can benefit from out-of-the-box, rather than hard coded alerts for specific scenarios.

We recently decided to centralise all gzip compression for our 500 or so microservices into an EnvoyFilter.