Notes from the DevOps trenches
Practical guides on cloud costs, CI/CD, observability and Infrastructure as Code — written by the engineers who do this work every day.
- Cloud cost
How to Reduce Cloud Costs Without Slowing Down Your Team
A practical playbook to cut AWS, GCP and Azure bills: visibility and tagging, rightsizing, commitments, autoscaling, storage lifecycle and making cost part of engineering.
October 13, 2026 · 8 min read
- CI/CD
Ship Faster with CI/CD: A Practical Pipeline Playbook
How to design CI/CD pipelines that let small teams deploy many times a day safely: fast feedback, trunk-based development, build once, progressive delivery and the metrics that matter.
October 13, 2026 · 9 min read
- Observability
Recover Faster from Incidents with Observability
Cut mean time to recovery with SLOs, actionable alerts, correlated metrics, logs and traces, and incident routines that turn outages into minutes instead of hours.
October 13, 2026 · 9 min read
- Infrastructure as Code
Managing Dev, Staging and Production with Infrastructure as Code
Patterns for running multiple environments with Terraform: reusable modules, isolated state, per-environment configuration, promotion through pipelines and drift detection.
October 13, 2026 · 10 min read