Agents · Cloud · Software
Emre Savas
I used to provide cloud services for humans. Now I provide it for agents.
I started writing code in 2007. By 2010 the direction was clear and I moved into cloud computing full-time, running private-cloud deployments in production while the term itself was still being defined in vendor decks. My public commentary at the time lived on Twitter, partly because that is where most of the cloud-product launches were happening.
Today I build infrastructure for autonomous agents: the runtimes, sandboxes, and operational pieces autonomous software needs in order to do real work without human supervision. The discipline is the same one I have been working on for the last fifteen years. The consumer profile changed.
On the operational side I run my own anycast network with my own IPv4, IPv6 and ASN. I do email authentication the way the spec intends: SPF, DKIM, DMARC, BIMI, and the kind of inbox-placement work that holds up under a real deliverability review. Repetitive operational workflows get automated with agents wherever it makes sense.
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Per-Seat Pricing Is Dying
Fourth in the series. The cloud article was history. The milkshake article was diagnosis. The tool-calling article was the playbook. This one is the bottom line: the per-seat licensing model that built every great SaaS company since 2008 is about to be unbuilt by a customer who does not sit. Christensen on asymmetric motivation and non-consumption explains why the incumbents will not, and cannot, fix this in time.
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Tool Calling Is the New API Design
Third in the series. The cloud article was history. The milkshake article was diagnosis. This is the playbook. What actually makes an API agent-friendly in 2026, with the JSON Schema, idempotency, error, pagination, scope, and observability patterns that decide whether autonomous software calls your service or rebuilds you from scratch.
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Your API Is the Product. The Dashboard Is the Milkshake.
Last week I wrote about Christensen's milkshake study and the coming disruption of SaaS by agentic software. This week I want to be specific about the trap. Most people building software today are still in the marketing meeting, picking a color palette for a dashboard the actual buyer will never see, because the actual buyer is not a person anymore. It is software. And the people who say agents are not ready for serious work are the same people who said minimill steel was too brittle for cars in 1985.
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2010s Cloud vs 2026 Agents
A first-person history of the decade that built modern cloud computing, told through the IaaS panels, hypervisor wars, datacenter automation moves, and open-source revolts that I lived through as a student and operator in Istanbul.
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DMARC: The Missing Piece in Your Email Security Strategy
As engineers, we often implement SPF records to define authorized mail servers and deploy DKIM signatures for cryptographic message verification. Many have even adopted BIMI for brand logo authentication. However, without DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and
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How BIMI Enhances Email Security and Brand Trust
Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) is an email authentication protocol designed to enhance email security while reinforcing brand trust. BIMI allows organizations to display their verified logo alongside authenticated emails, helping recipients distinguish legitim
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Why DKIM Alone Is Not Enough for Email Security
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a widely used email authentication method that helps verify the integrity of emails. However, relying on DKIM is not sufficient for comprehensive email security. While DKIM ensures email content remains unaltered during transmission, it does n
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Do Not Expose Your Infrastructure with SPF Records
SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is a cornerstone of email authentication, designed to prevent spoofing by specifying authorized mail servers. However, misconfigured SPF records can expose critical details about your infrastructure. This exposure provides attackers with valuable dat
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Build APIs instead of SaaS
Should you build an API or go all-in on a full-fledged SaaS product? Creating either has never been easier. With recent advancements in development tools, cloud infrastructure, and streamlined platforms, building an API or launching a SaaS product is more accessible than ever bef
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Public, time-stamped calls from when these were live debates rather than history.
OpenStack just hit its six-month mark. Hoping for even better news from here.
Six months after OpenStack was launched jointly by Rackspace and NASA, with the Austin release shipped and Bexar approaching.
Amazon has officially stepped into the PaaS world.
Two days after AWS announced Elastic Beanstalk, the first AWS-native PaaS offering.
Amazon S3 is now storing around 263 billion objects.
S3 was less than five years old; AWS had just published the figure.
Amazon AWS just shipped new web-console features, especially around instance settings.
On the AWS Management Console refresh that introduced finer-grained EC2 instance controls.
Topic of the day: “Temporal isolation among virtual machines.”
Reading research on temporal isolation in multi-tenant hypervisors, a year before noisy-neighbour incidents hit mainstream cloud press.
And the oscar goes to @CloudFlare.
Cloudflare was barely 18 months old and just starting to register outside the security crowd.
Citrix XenServer 6.1 includes direct integration with CloudStack and Citrix CloudPlatform.
On the day Citrix released XenServer 6.1 with built-in CloudStack integration, shortly after the Cloud.com acquisition.
Thanks to @Citrix, #XenServer is the first full-featured and full open-sourced virtualization platform.
Same day Citrix open-sourced XenServer 6.2. A meaningful moment for the hypervisor world.
OpenStack Istanbul / Turkey event.
From the OpenStack Istanbul / Turkey community meetup, five years and eleven releases into the project.
Thanks @Equinix Turkey and @awscloud for today’s Private Cloud Connect event. Great chance to expand AWS services with our infrastructure.
After the AWS x Equinix Turkey Private Cloud Connect event in Istanbul, extending AWS reach into customer-controlled private infrastructure.