From Air-Gapped to AI-Ready: The Story of PortSwigger’s Delivery Shift
A Slow System Meets a Fast World The software was brilliant. The research was world-class. The infrastructure and delivery model needed to catch up. When I joined PortSwigger, engineers were working in air-gapped environments. This was designed with security in mind, though over time it had started to get in the way. Teams often had to work around the controls just to stay productive. There were brilliant minds everywhere. We were spending large amounts of engineering effort building clever but overly complex solutions to problems already solved by open source. ...