Eight months ago, a cloud migration plan went to the board with a date and a budget attached. The deadline has passed. The budget has been exceeded. Some workloads are in the cloud, others remain in the old environment, and the…
Managed Kubernetes vs Self-Managed: When Should a Small Team Switch?
Every small team running Kubernetes has that upgrade. It has been on the board for three sprints. Everyone agrees it needs doing. Nobody wants to break production on a Thursday. Meanwhile, the cluster keeps getting further behind. If the same two…
Key person risk in DevOps: a knowledge transfer plan for when your only engineer leaves
The message usually arrives on a Tuesday. Your DevOps engineer has found another job, they want to be fair about it, and they’re offering four weeks. If that engineer was one of five on a platform team, this is a staffing…
