Policy-driven golden paths in Backstage: templates, Scaffolder, and secure defaults
Golden paths are opinionated, repeatable workflows that make the right choice the easy choice for developers. Backstage already provides the building blocks—Software Templates (the Scaffolder), the Software Catalog, and a...
Making Incident Reports Shorter — and Trustworthy: Why Retrieval + Conservative Summaries Matter
Incident reports are a rich but messy source of truth: free‑text narratives from staff, logs, sensor dumps, and threaded chat. Automatically turning that into a concise, accurate summary that a...
Writing your first Terraform module from scratch: structure, validation, and tests
Reusing infrastructure code with modules is the first step toward consistent, maintainable infrastructure-as-code. This short guide walks through a minimal, production-minded example: building a simple AWS S3 bucket module from...
SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs — a practical guide for modern services
Reliability promises live at three levels: SLIs (what you measure), SLOs (what you aim for), and SLAs (what you contract). Getting them right means measuring what users actually experience, setting...
Carbon-aware autoscaling: automating lower cloud carbon footprints
Sustainable DevOps adds environmental responsibility to the usual DevOps goals of speed and reliability. One of the most practical levers in that space is automation: letting systems dynamically shift work...
Stop wasting money on idle cloud resources: a beginner’s practical guide
Cloud bills feel like a mysterious vinyl record — they keep spinning even when nothing new is playing. The good news: most “mystery” cloud spend comes from idle, forgotten, or...
Gateway API: the easy way to think about modern Kubernetes ingress
Kubernetes networking has a habit of evolving under our feet. Lately the change that matters for many teams isn’t the CNI or a new load‑balancer trick — it’s the Gateway...
Provenance-first: making AI-generated Kubernetes manifests verifiable and safe
AI can write a tidy Deployment or Service faster than manual YAML, but the convenience carries a familiar risk: who (or what) actually owned the final manifest, and can you...