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Steve Fenton is a Principal DevEx Researcher at Octopus Deploy, a DORA Community Guide, and a 8-time Microsoft MVP with more than two decades of experience in software delivery. He has written books on TypeScript (Apress, InfoQ), Octopus Deploy, and Web Operations. Steve has worked in the role of Software Engineer, SDET, Development Manager, and Director of Product and Data in a range of startups, SMEs, and enterprises.

The top 5 features of internal developer platforms

Steve FentonSeptember 16, 2025 • 7 min read
Your IDP needs DDD

Steve FentonSeptember 9, 2025 • 7 min read
How organizations measure Platform Engineering

Steve FentonSeptember 2, 2025 • 8 min read
The productivity delusion

Steve FentonJuly 22, 2025 • 6 min read
The State of GitOps report: Exploring effective GitOps

Steve FentonJune 17, 2025 • 4 min read
Automatic rollbacks are a last resort

Steve FentonMay 15, 2025 • 5 min read
Financial industry compliance, the DevOps way

Steve FentonApril 30, 2025 • 6 min read
The 3 measurement types from Measuring Continuous Delivery and DevOps

Steve FentonApril 2, 2025 • 6 min read
Effective DevOps metrics

Steve FentonDecember 9, 2024 • 6 min read
The 2024 DevOps performance clusters

Steve FentonNovember 19, 2024 • 5 min read
Free your teams from maintenance tasks with runbooks

Steve FentonNovember 12, 2024 • 5 min read
Octolint best practices

Steve FentonFebruary 14, 2024 • 7 min read

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Resilient AI agents with MCP: Timeout and retry strategies

Learn how to add timeout and retry strategies to your AI agents using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enhance their reliability and performance when interacting with external systems.