Every DevOps team has faced it: an incident that takes minutes to detect but hours to understand. Systems are down. Logs are sprawling. Alerts are flying. But the hardest part isn’t fixing the issue—it’s finding… Root Cause Analysis With AI: How Modern Teams Cut MTTR in Half
“We’re not a Terraform shop”—a phrase heard in countless engineering standups when the topic of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) comes up. While Terraform has long been the poster child of IaC, not every team wants—or needs—to climb… IaC for Non-Terraform Teams: Building Infrastructure Without the Tooling Baggage
In a world where uptime is table stakes, Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) has emerged as the new gold standard. But there’s a hidden enemy undermining your MTTR progress: alert fatigue. Engineering teams today aren’t… Why Alert Fatigue Is a Real Threat to Resilience
In theory, usage-based pricing is a dream: you only pay for what you use. In practice, it can feel like trying to budget your household on a fluctuating utility bill during a heatwave. The more… Budgeting with Usage-Based Pricing: How Modern Teams Stay in Control of Cloud Spend
In 2025, uptime is no longer the gold standard. It’s the floor. The true battleground is recovery speed—how fast teams respond when (not if) things break. Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) is the metric that… MTTR Benchmarks Across Industries: What ‘Good’ Looks Like in 2025
In most engineering circles, audit logs are seen as a necessary evil — something you bolt on for compliance or incident response. But that’s a narrow view. Smart SaaS teams are starting to realize that… Audit Logs Your CFO Will Love: Bridging DevOps and Finance Through Better Logging
Cloud bills don’t just inflate — they ambush you. One minute you’re scaling confidently, the next you’re on Slack asking who spun up a GPU cluster and forgot to shut it down. The culprits? Not… Cost Dashboards That Actually Help: Turning Cloud Spend Into Engineering Insight
For most SaaS teams, threat modeling feels like a luxury they can’t afford. It’s often seen as heavyweight, theoretical, or only relevant for highly regulated industries. Teams chasing fast release cycles can’t justify halting work… Stop Guessing, Start Mapping: How SaaS Teams Can Make Threat Modeling Work
Why Observability Alone Won’t Save Your Infrastructure Introduction: Watching Isn’t the Same as Fixing In the world of DevOps, monitoring is often treated as synonymous with control. If you have dashboards, alerts, and logs, you… Monitoring vs Optimization: Why Watching Isn’t Enough in Modern DevOps