DevOps — Page 5 of 8
Browsing page 5 of 8 — 95 articles on devops.
Automated Incident Response for Small Teams: Runbook Automation, Auto-Remediation, and Escalation Workflows
Small teams get paged just as often as large ones. Here is how to build alert routing, runbook automation, auto-remediation, and escalation workflows without an enterprise tooling budget.
FinOps for Engineering Teams: Cloud Cost Attribution, Budget Alerts, and Automated Right-Sizing
Cloud costs are an engineering problem, not a finance problem. This guide covers tagging strategies, budget alerts, automated right-sizing, reserved instance planning, unit economics, and cost dashboards that engineers actually open.
GPU Infrastructure for AI Workloads: Provisioning, Cost Optimization, and Autoscaling Inference Servers
GPU compute is 10-100x more expensive than CPU. This guide covers GPU selection for training vs inference vs fine-tuning, provisioning strategies across cloud and specialized providers, cost optimization with spot instances and quantization, autoscaling inference servers on the right signals, and the monitoring layer you need before any of it makes sense in production.
Database Reliability Engineering: Automated Failover, Read Replicas, and Recovery Testing for Production Postgres
Most startups treat Postgres as a black box until it breaks. This covers streaming replication, read replica routing, automated failover with Patroni and pg_auto_failover, connection handling during promotion, chaos testing for databases, replication lag monitoring, and how self-managed compares to RDS, Neon, Supabase, and Crunchy Bridge.
Kubernetes Networking Explained: Services, Ingress, Network Policies, and DNS Resolution
Kubernetes networking has a flat model and a surprisingly rich set of abstractions built on top of it. This guide covers the pod network model, all four Service types, Ingress controllers, Network Policies, CoreDNS, and the debugging techniques you reach for when traffic stops flowing.
Multi-Cloud Strategy in Practice: Avoiding Lock-In, Managing Complexity, and When Portability Is Worth the Tax
Multi-cloud sounds like risk mitigation, but it often trades vendor risk for operational complexity. Here is the honest breakdown of lock-in costs, portability taxes, and the decision framework that actually applies in production.
Database Backup and Disaster Recovery for Startups: Automated Snapshots, Point-in-Time Recovery, and Recovery Runbooks
Most startups skip backup strategy until data loss forces the conversation. This covers automated snapshot strategies for PostgreSQL (pg_dump, WAL archiving, managed service snapshots), point-in-time recovery mechanics, cross-region replication, how to write runbooks that work under pressure, and a cost analysis for each strategy at startup scale.
Dependency Management at Scale: Automated Updates, Security Patching, and Breaking Change Detection in Monorepos
How to keep dependencies current across a TypeScript monorepo without drowning in Renovate PRs or missing critical security patches.
Network Security for Cloud-Native Startups: VPCs, Security Groups, Zero Trust, and Practical Hardening for Production Infrastructure
A practical guide to network security for startup engineering teams on AWS and GCP: VPC design, security groups, NACLs, mTLS, zero trust, DNS security, egress filtering, and a hardening checklist with Terraform examples.
Environment Management for Growing Teams: Staging Strategies, Preview Deployments, and Configuration Parity
A practical guide for teams scaling beyond a single production environment. Covers topology design, configuration management, preview deployments, database seeding, secrets handling, and keeping environments in sync so staging actually predicts production.
On-Demand Preview Environments: Ephemeral Infrastructure for Pull Request Workflows
A practical guide to building on-demand preview environments that spin up automatically for every pull request and tear down on merge. Covers architecture patterns, DNS routing, database isolation, CI/CD integration, cost management, and security.
Terraform State Management in Production: Remote Backends, State Locking, and Drift Detection for Growing Teams
A practical guide to managing Terraform state in production: remote backends, locking mechanisms, workspace strategies, drift detection, and CI/CD integration patterns for teams that can't afford corruption.