Postmortems for the AI era: what recent incident write‑ups teach about improving incident culture
Incidents are like a bad gig: something goes off-script, the crowd notices, and afterwards the band either argues about who missed a cue or sits down and figures out how...
Managing observability dashboards with GitOps: an intro to observability-as-code
Dashboards are the backstage console of modern systems — they’re where SREs, developers, and product owners tune into how an app is performing. Yet many teams still edit dashboards by...
Hands-on with Helm: migrating and packaging charts to OCI registries
Helm has been the de facto package manager for Kubernetes for years. But the way we distribute charts is changing: the community is moving from index.yaml-style chart repositories (the old...
When AI leaves the IDE: Copilots that run DevOps tasks for you
The familiar picture of an AI copilot is often a chat window inside VS Code suggesting the next line of code. But a quieter revolution is underway: copilots that don’t...
Platform engineering vs DevOps: what’s the real difference?
DevOps has been the story we’ve told ourselves for the past decade: break down silos, automate the pipeline, and let teams move faster. But lately there’s a new chapter —...
Cloud cost optimization for beginners — Stop wasting money on idle resources
If your cloud bill feels like a leaky faucet, the most likely drips aren’t exotic AI instances or unexpected data egress — they’re idle resources. Big surveys show that controlling...
Platform engineering vs DevOps: what’s the real difference?
DevOps and platform engineering are often used like interchangeable lyrics in a song cycle — they come from the same tune, but they play very different parts. Over the last...
Kubernetes: Test your knowledge!
This set of 14 questions will test your knowledge from the basics of cluster components and workloads, all the way up to advanced topics like scheduling, autoscaling, and persistent storage....