Sidecars, Be Gone: How Sidecarless Mesh and the Gateway API Are Taming Microservice Sprawl
Modern microservices feel like running a festival across dozens of stages: every act needs power, sound checks, and a clean handoff to the next performer. Service meshes promised to be...
Scorecards and Golden Paths: What Backstage’s New Backend Unlocks for Your Internal Developer Platform
Platform engineering is moving past “a portal with links” into something opinionated, measurable, and safe-by-default. The shift is visible in two converging trends: IDPs are standardizing how software gets built...
CrowdStrike’s Global Outage: A Maturity Stress Test for Incident Response and Postmortem Culture
When blue screens start showing up on airport kiosks and hospital desktops, you learn a lot about your incident playbook—fast. On July 19, a routine content update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon...
PCI DSS v4.x Future‑Dated Requirements Are Now In Force: Turn Compliance Into Policy‑as‑Code
If your organization touches card data, 2025 isn’t “next year’s” problem anymore. On March 31, 2025, the bulk of PCI DSS v4.x’s future‑dated controls moved from “best practice” to “required.”...
America’s Chip Boom Has a Technician Problem — and Earn‑and‑Learn Training Is the Fastest Fix
If you’ve glanced at tech headlines lately, you’ve seen a familiar refrain: the U.S. is building fabs at record pace, but we don’t have enough people to run them. Arizona...
Unifying DevOps and MLOps: CI Quality Gates and Live Monitoring for GenAI
Shipping AI features safely now demands one pipeline that treats models like code: tested on every pull request, deployed with progressive delivery, and monitored in production with the same rigor...
Carbon‑Aware CI/CD: Turning Real‑Time Grid Emissions Into Greener Deploys
Sustainability in DevOps isn’t just about reporting anymore. Over the past few cycles, the building blocks for practical, day‑to‑day emissions reduction have matured: we have an ISO standard to measure...
Stop Chasing Nines: Make User Experience Your Reliability Metric
When your favorite song skips, you don’t care that your stereo’s “uptime” is 99.99%. You care that the music doesn’t feel right. Software reliability is exactly the same: what matters...