// Enterprise

Chris reviews the latest GitHub changelog including CodeQL updates, GPT-5.1 Codex Max preview, GitHub MCP server tool-specific configuration, and Enterprise Server 3.19 GA. He then explores the major VS Code December release featuring Agent HQ, background agents with git worktrees, sub-agents, and custom agents for organizations, while continuing to build custom agents for a game MCP server project.

Introduces enterprise repository policies in GitHub, a governance feature that lets administrators restrict repository operations—including visibility changes, creations, deletions, transfers, and naming—across all organizations in an enterprise account. The video also demonstrates repository properties defined at the enterprise level, giving organization admins consistent, inherited property values and requiring them at repository creation time to enforce compliance from day one.

As AI continues to reshape the way businesses innovate, the conversation shifts beyond the mere integration of new technology. Chris emphasizes that adopting AI-powered software development is a significant cultural shift, requiring more than just technical tools. It demands a top-down approach, where leadership support and change management are critical to fostering a progressive culture within development teams.

Introduces GitHub's Private Mirrors App, a self-hosted or GitHub-managed tool that helps organizations contribute to open source projects while managing compliance, legal, and security risk. The app creates private mirrors mapped to public forks, enabling teams to run CI/CD checks and policy enforcement before syncing changes back to the public fork for upstream contribution. The video demonstrates forking an upstream project, configuring multiple team mirrors, and integrating with an Enterprise Managed Users organization.

Ready to explore our blueprint for AI-powered development? Join us to network with local tech leaders and learn the key to addressing tech debt, modernizing the software development lifecycle, and transforming your enterprise.

Ready to explore our blueprint for AI-powered development? Join us to network with local tech leaders and learn the key to addressing tech debt, modernizing the software development lifecycle, and transforming your enterprise.

Ready to explore our blueprint for AI-powered development? Join us to network with local tech leaders and learn the key to addressing tech debt, modernizing the software development lifecycle, and transforming your enterprise.

Ready to explore our blueprint for AI-powered development? Join us to network with local tech leaders and learn the key to addressing tech debt, modernizing the software development lifecycle, and transforming your enterprise.

Ready to explore our blueprint for AI-powered development? Join us to network with local tech leaders and learn the key to addressing tech debt, modernizing the software development lifecycle, and transforming your enterprise.

As systems grow in complexity across distributed architectures and microservices, traditional monitoring is no longer sufficient to maintain reliability and user experience. Observability goes beyond monitoring by correlating logs, metrics, and traces to rapidly pinpoint root causes across hybrid and multi-cloud landscapes. In this episode, Chris is joined by Samir Pradka, Enterprise Architect at Artos, to explore how organisations can build an observability platform incrementally, leverage AIOps for predictive analytics, and implement self-healing infrastructure using tools like Ansible and Azure Resource Manager.