#236: As you are heading into budget season for 2025, you're probably trying to figure out how to eliminate as much wasteful cloud spend as you can. But how did you get here? Instead of trying to redu

#235: In the mid-2000s, Werner Vogels introduced the idea of "you build it, you run it". This concept suggested that the same team responsible for building a product should also be responsible for run

#234: The shift to cloud computing has greatly increased the popularity of infrastructure as code. But think about it. Cloud is nothing more than an abstraction on top of bare metal servers. Why can't

#233: When you first start a job, you'll probably be doing good to get paired up with a senior person to walk you through the ropes. What if instead you could sit down and actually run through simulat

#232: More than eighteen months in, Log4J appears to still be a huge problem for many organizations. What if there was a way to make sure those types of problems could be easily bubbled out to the rig

#231: We never thought that exposing our databases to the public internet was a good thing. However, when we started creating middleware API services that sat in front of those databases, we probably

#230: In today's digital age, it's no secret that relying solely on passwords for security is no longer an effective solution. We all understand the risks associated with using just passwords, but the

#229: When Kubernetes was first released in September 2014, the only way we could get applications installed to the cluster was by using kubectl apply and big, ugly YAML files. Since that time, many t

#228: The Agile Manifesto is now more than 20 years old. However, even after all this time, instead of helping organizations create and deliver software faster to satisfy customer needs, many times Ag

#227: Imagine this. You walk into your office and your manager pulls you to the side and says Pack up your belongings. Youve been made redundant. We wish you the best in your future endeavors. Just