Tag: cloud infrastructure
Configuration Drift in a Multi-Cloud World
Mariusz Michalowski | | cloud infrastructure, configuration drift, infrastructure as code, multicloud, opentofu, TerraformConfiguration drift is the gap between the infrastructure state declared in code and the state actually running in your environment. It occurs when resources are changed outside of your infrastructure as code ...
Modernization Is Not Migration
Modernization worked only if the platform became easier to change, easier to understand and safer to run under pressure. That is not a philosophical position — it is a measurable one ...
Risk-Based Review for Infrastructure as Code Pull RequestsÂ
Naga Krishna Reddy Muppidi | | automated review systems, blast radius analysis, change approval workflow, change management, CI/CD governance, cloud infrastructure, Cloud Security, deployment risk, deployment safety, devops, devsecops, Engineering Governance, engineering productivity, gitops, IaC review, infrastructure as code, infrastructure auditing, infrastructure automation, infrastructure change tracking, infrastructure compliance, infrastructure controls, infrastructure delivery, Infrastructure Governance, infrastructure observability, infrastructure reliability, infrastructure risk scoring, infrastructure security, operational risk management, platform engineering, platform operations, platform team workflows, policy as code, production changes, production deployments, pull request review, reviewer fatigue, reviewer workflows, risk assessment, risk-based review, security review automationNot every infrastructure pull request deserves the same review path. A tag change in a development account and a network-policy change in production should not create identical reviewer load. When every change ...
Overcoming IP Churn in Ephemeral DevOps Environments Using Userspace Overlays
Modern DevOps practices have completely transformed how we handle compute and orchestration. Tools like Kubernetes enable engineering teams to spin up ephemeral containers in seconds and scale workloads dynamically to meet global ...
I Learned Traffic Optimization Before I Learned Cloud Computing. It Turns Out the Lessons Were the Same.
Harshit Omar | | cloud infrastructure, cloud optimization, cloud resilience, infrastructure portability, multi-cloud strategyI wanted to be a race car driver before I knew what a data center was. I started in traffic, not in the cloud. This was not a childhood dream driven by ...
Lessons from 2025: The Year “Agent Mitigation” Became a ThingÂ
Abigail Wall | | Agent Mitigation, AI agents, AI Best Practices, AI security, cloud infrastructure, Continuous Evaluation, Data Exfiltration, Environment Orchestration, Incident Analysis, incident management, incident response, Mitigation Strategies., Public APIs, reliability engineering, risk management, Security ControlsExplore the emergence of agent mitigation as a formal discipline in response to 2025's AI failures, highlighting best practices for secure and reliable AI agent deployment ...
Predict 2026: Why AI Will Force DevOps to Reinvent Itself
Mike Vizard | | agentic AI, AI in DevOps, AI-Driven Development, Analyst Insights, CI/CD Automation, cloud infrastructure, data governance, DevOps Dozen Awards, DevOps transformation, devsecops, Innovation in Software Engineering., Operational Strategies, Predict 2026, SaaS Business Models, security integration, software development, technology trendsJoin us at Predict 2026 to explore how AI is transforming the DevOps landscape, enhancing software delivery, and redefining operational strategies ...
From Reactive to Predictive: Capacity Planning Systems That Actually Work
Muhammad Yawar Malik | | capacity planning, cloud infrastructure, Predictive Analytics, reliability engineering, scalingI used to think capacity planning was about setting up CloudWatch alarms and hoping they'd fire before things broke. Spoiler: that's not capacity planning—that's just reactive firefighting with extra steps. Real capacity ...
Observability, SRE and Uptime in Telehealth Platforms: A DevOps Playbook
Michael Chukwube | | cloud infrastructure, devops, incident management, observability, Patient Data Security, resilience engineering, site reliability engineering, TelehealthVirtual care went from nice to have to must have during the COVID-19 pandemic and while in-person visits are starting to pick up again, telemedicine is here to stay. Its growth will ...
The Most Destructive Cloud Cost Pitfall: Discounts Before Optimization
Organizations under pressure to cut cloud costs often reach for discount programs first as the simplest lever. It feels like a win to commit to reserved capacity or enterprise agreements because it ...
Common IaC Security Issues and How to Fix Them
Durojaye Olusegun | | audit logging, automated compliance, CI/CD pipeline security, cloud infrastructure, cloud misconfiguration, cloud security incidents, CloudFormation, configuration drift, devsecops, drift detection, hardcoded secrets, IaC automation, IaC best practices, IaC governance, IaC security, IaC vulnerabilities, infrastructure as code, least privilege access, policy as code, secrets managementLearn the top five Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security vulnerabilities, their fixes, and best practices to prevent misconfigurations, drifts, and breaches ...
From Firefighting to Forward-Thinking: My Real-World Lessons in DevOps and Cloud Engineering
Bhanuteja Somarouthu | | CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, devops best practices, observability in devops, Real-world DevOpsTools change, but the fundamentals stay — plan for failure, treat infra and pipelines like code and make observability a first-class citizen ...
