ResilienceDevOps
Chaos Engineering: Break Things on Purpose With Chaos Mesh
Chaos engineering means breaking systems on purpose to test failure predictions. Here is a real Chaos Mesh walkthrough on a local kind cluster.
14 min read
DevOps
DevOps practices and continuous delivery
DevOpsArchitecture Practices
Internal Developer Platforms: Stop Reinventing Wheels in Every Squad
Every squad reinventing the same deployment pipelines, logging stacks, and secrets management. Sound familiar? Here is how Internal Developer Platforms end the cycle and let your engineers focus on what actually matters.
14 min read
SecurityDevOps
Sandboxed Agents: Giving Your Code Monkeys Their Own Sandbox
Coding agents that can delete your work, mine cryptocurrency, and exfiltrate data are not hypothetical. This post covers how sandboxed execution works, which isolation technologies to choose for your threat model, and how to build a working Docker-based sandbox from scratch.
18 min read
DevOpsArchitecture Practices
DORA Metrics for Architects: Stop Guessing, Start Measuring
DORA metrics give architects objective feedback on whether their decisions are helping or hurting. Learn how to use all five metrics, including the 2025 addition of Rework Rate, to measure delivery performance, identify bottlenecks, and make the case for architectural change with data.
15 min read
GovernanceDevOps
Automate or Fall Behind: Why Continuous Compliance Is Non-Negotiable
Stop treating compliance as a quarterly fire drill. By embedding automated policy checks, SBOM generation, and evidence collection directly into your CI/CD pipeline, you can stay continuously audit-ready, catch violations before they ship, and spend less time reconstructing history at 3 AM.
17 min read
DevOpsSecurity
Git Hooks: Preventing Your Credentials from Going Viral
Git hooks catch AWS keys and tokens before they reach your Git history. A pre-commit setup that runs in seconds and survives contact with real developers.
11 min read
Quality & TestingDevOps
Test && Commit || Revert: Why Architects Should Master TCR
It was 2:47 AM when Sarah, a principal architect at a rapidly scaling SaaS company, finally admitted defeat. She’d been debugging for six hours, trying to untangle a "quick refactoring" that had somehow metastasized into 847 lines of changed code across 23 files. The tests were failing in mysterious ways, her Git diff looked like a Jackson Pollock painting, and she couldn’t remember which of her "improvements" had actually broken things. Sound familiar?
12 min read