Doin’ DevOps
AWS Just Turned “Deploy to AWS” Into a Five-Word Prompt
AWS Agent Plugins give coding agents the skills to architect, estimate costs, and deploy to AWS. Type "deploy to AWS" and the agent handles the rest ...
When DevOps Meets the Cloud: A Real-World Transformation Story
A real-world DevOps and cloud transformation story showing how automation, observability, and cultural change improved reliability and delivery ...
What a ‘Good Plan’ Really Means for AI Coding Agents
Explore how AI coding agents are transforming software development. This article discusses the importance of clear objectives, runnable tasks, and continuous validation in planning to ensure that the transition from idea to ...
Cline CLI 2.0 Turns Your Terminal Into an AI Agent Control Plane
Cline CLI 2.0 brings full AI coding agents to the terminal with parallel execution, headless CI/CD mode, and ACP editor support. Open source, any model ...
MCP-Powered Agentic AI in DevOps: Building Secure, Scalable Multi-Agent Pipelines for Autonomous SRE and Observability
Discover how model context protocol (MCP) powered agentic AI is transforming DevOps by enhancing resilience and efficiency in cloud-native environments. Learn about the challenges, benefits, and real-world applications of autonomous multi-agent systems ...
AWS CodeBuild Webhook Misconfiguration Exposed Admin Access Risk
AWS fixed webhook filter misconfigurations in CodeBuild that could have allowed unauthorized repository access. No customer impact or malicious code found ...
DevOps: The Never-Ending Story
A reflective take from Alan on why DevOps endures, adapts, and remains a human-centered practice in an era of platforms and AI ...
Patch or Perish: The Brutal Truth About Vulnerability Management in 2025
Vulnerability management in 2025 is overwhelmed by escalating CVEs and costly breaches; organizations must shift from slow, manual patching to continuous, risk-based, AI-powered remediation to stay secure ...
What I’m Thankful for in DevOps This Year: Living Through Interesting Times
Alan reflects on a chaotic yet inspiring year in DevOps, highlighting the rise of AI in engineering, the maturation of DevSecOps, the evolution of hybrid work culture, the surge of platform engineering ...
How to Build Engineering Teams That Drive Outcomes, not Outputs
Outcome-based engineering teams focus on delivering real customer and business impact, aligning goals, adapting quickly, and collaborating across roles to drive results ...
Modular & Shift-Left Observability for Modern DevOps Pipelines
Shift-left observability makes monitoring a modular, built-in part of DevOps—improving reliability, cost efficiency, and visibility across modern cloud-native systems ...
The Hidden Cost of “Free” Open Source Infrastructure
When the OpenSSF, PyPI, Rust Foundation, and OpenJS recently declared that "Open Infrastructure Is Not Free," they highlighted a crisis that affects every organization building modern software. Behind every container image pulled, every vulnerability scan and every automated ...

