What Separates a Composable Infrastructure Vendor From a DevOps Platform With Loose Parts
Well-defined contracts between components matter more than the number of modular parts.
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Well-defined contracts between components matter more than the number of modular parts.
Most vendors claiming composability are just repackaging monoliths with APIs.
Software factories govern the entire loop that produces change, not just deployment.
AI agents need their own permission architecture, separate from human users and CI/CD pipelines.
AI agents need branch strategies designed for high-volume parallel pulls, not human workflows.
New authentication and merge patterns are required for agents at GitHub scale.
Composable stacks distribute lock-in across vendors instead of eliminating it.
Five practices let platforms safely scale AI agents from prototype to production.
Agents double your PR volume, but your merge queue wasn't designed for that load.