Most teams find out their Kubernetes backup strategy is broken during a recovery. They backed up etcd, assumed that covered the cluster, and then discovered that all the data in their persistent volumes was gone. etcd stores the cluster state. It…
Cloud vulnerability management: how to detect what matters
Most cloud security teams spend their time scanning for vulnerabilities. They run Trivy against their container images, get a list of 3,000 CVEs, and try to figure out which ones matter. The list is always too long. The prioritization is always…
AI can write the code. It still cannot run the system at 2 AM.
It is 2:14 AM. Checkout is down. The pager has gone off four times in eleven minutes. Three dashboards disagree about what is broken. The on-call engineer is staring at a Slack thread where two senior people are politely arguing about…
The DevOps lifecycle explained: from planning to monitoring
74% of organizations say they have adopted DevOps. But when you look at what “adopted” means in practice, the picture gets less impressive. Most teams have automated their builds and set up a CI/CD pipeline. Some have automated testing. Very few…
Serverless Kubernetes: what it is and whether you should use it
Nobody wants to manage Kubernetes nodes. The patching, the capacity planning, the 2 AM alert because an autoscaler did not scale. Every cloud provider knows this, which is why AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure all sell some version of “serverless Kubernetes”…
Application Modernization: When Your App Becomes the Problem
Picture your favourite e-commerce site running on the same setup it had in 2014. One big application. One database. One server that someone provisioned for a normal Tuesday. Then Black Friday hits. Millions of people mash Buy Now at the same…
DevOps metrics that actually matter (and how to measure them)
Most teams have a DevOps monitoring setup that tracks one thing well: deployment frequency. The line goes up, leadership feels good, and nobody asks whether the software is actually getting more reliable. That is the core problem with DevOps metrics in…
Platform engineering vs DevOps: what changed and which do you need?
In 2022, about 45% of large software engineering organizations had a platform team. By the end of 2026, Gartner predicts that number will hit 80% (Gartner: Strategic Trends in Platform Engineering 2025). That is a staggering adoption rate for something most…
Kubernetes cost optimization: how to find and fix wasted compute
Cloud infrastructure spending crossed $675 billion in 2025. About 27% of it was wasted. That percentage has held between 27% and 32% every single year since 2019. Nobody is getting better at this (Spendark: State of Cloud Waste 2026). Kubernetes was…
