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Facets Cloud's AI Assistants for Infrastructure as Code Recognition Now Spans a Market Guide and 5 Gartner Hype Cycles
Facets Cloud, and its Facets Intelligence (Praxis) product, is now cited across Gartner's inaugural Market Guide for AI Assistants for Infrastructure as Code and 5 different 2026 Hype Cycles. What changed, why it matters, and how Facets Intelligence delivers on what this market demands.

Facets Named Representative Vendor in Gartner's Market Guide for Infrastructure Automation & Orchestration Tools
Facets has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in Gartner's Market Guide for Infrastructure Automation & Orchestration Tools, in both the 2025 and 2026 editions. As DevOps shifts toward platform engineering, this recognition validates our belief that infrastructure should be defined once and delivered everywhere.
Infrastructure Platform Engineering: Facets Named in Gartner's Reference Architecture Brief
Gartner's Reference Architecture Brief for Infrastructure Platform Engineering named Facets in its Catalog access section. Here's how Facets' approach lines up with Gartner's four pillars of a mature IPE framework.
People-Led vs Facets-Led Cloud Migrations
People-led vs Facets-led: a phase-by-phase comparison of how cloud migrations are run today — from assessment and discovery to landing zone creation to go-live — and what changes when the platform drives it.
The Quiet $1M Leak in Your Engineering Org
The costs are visible. The potential savings hiding inside them aren't. Three calculations — grounded in DORA research — make them obvious.
Top Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Tools for 2026
Comprehensive guide to the top infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools in 2026, including Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, and Crossplane, for automating cloud infrastructure provisioning.
Best Cloud Infrastructure Automation Tools in 2026
The best cloud infrastructure automation tools in 2026 across provisioning engines, control-plane orchestration, and configuration management, with honest current picks.
The Best Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) to Consider in 2026
Discover the best internal developer platforms (IDPs) in 2026, split into provisioning and orchestration engines and developer portals, with honest picks and where each fits.
10 Best Software Release Management Tools in 2026 to Streamline Your Deployment
Explore the best software release management tools in 2026, grouped by orchestration, CI/CD, and governance lanes, with honest picks to streamline your release process.
Runtime Behavioral Nudging for Large Language Model Agents
A comprehensive framework for dynamic behavioral guidance in LLM agents through invisible context injection. Learn how runtime nudging enables just-in-time behavioral guidance without modifying user input or restricting agent capabilities.
OCI...The Next Standard for AI Infrastructure?
Explore why OCI is emerging as the winning standard for AI/ML artifacts and how standardization is bringing order to the fragmented MLOps landscape with Görkem Ercan, CTO at Jozu
AI DevOps Reality: Field Report from the Enterprise Trenches
Understand the real-world impact of AI in DevOps with AWS Senior Container Specialist, Sanjeev Ganjihal
Unifying Your Toolchain: Introducing the Facets Orchestration Platform
Learn how an infrastructure orchestrator allows platform engineers to become enablers, enabling developers to self-service.
Mastering Cloud Interoperability with Cloud-agnostic Blueprints
Leverage Cloud Interoperability for seamless cloud migration between AWS, Azure, GCP - automated documentation, zero downtime, consistent environments, enabling agile multi-cloud strategies.
Unifying Your Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC): The Power of Blueprints
Learn how blueprints, a declarative representation of your entire application architecture can replace the fragmented approach by providing a single source of truth for all elements of your software product
When AI Writes Code, Who Writes the Guardrails: Addressing AI Security Risks
Learn about the security risks when building AI-powered products, including prompt injection, common vulnerabilities, and architectural pitfalls.