Platform Engineering with Backstage on AWS: A Practical Guide for 2026
I watched a backend engineer spend two hours yesterday trying to figure out which CloudFormation template to use for their new service....
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Terraform + MCP: AI Agents Managing Infrastructure in 2026
I’ve been using Terraform MCP for three months now, and it’s the most significant shift in how I interact with infrastructure since...
GitLab CI Services: Run Databases in Your Pipeline Tests
The first time I tried running integration tests in GitLab CI, I hardcoded a database connection to localhost and wondered why nothing...
Amazon S3 Tables and Apache Iceberg: When S3 Becomes a Managed Lakehouse Layer
Amazon S3 Tables is not just another way to put Parquet files in a bucket. It is AWS turning a long-running data...
Open Proxy Detection on AWS: Stop Your Cloud From Becoming Someone Else's Abuse Network
An open proxy in AWS is not just a security group mistake. It can turn your IP reputation, bandwidth, compute budget, and...
Docker Model Runner and Open WebUI: Local AI Infrastructure That DevOps Teams Can Actually Operate
Local AI stopped being a weekend toy when developer workstations started handling private code, tickets, logs, and architecture notes. Docker Model Runner...
Kyverno 1.18 Migration Guide: From ClusterPolicy to CEL-Based Policy Types
Kyverno 1.18 was released on May 5, 2026, and the headline is not only new features. The bigger operational message is that...
SPIFFE and SPIRE on EKS: Workload Identity for Multi-Cluster AWS Platforms
Kubernetes service accounts are not enough once workloads cross clusters, clouds, and trust boundaries. The April 2026 AWS guide for SPIFFE/SPIRE on...
SageMaker Capacity-Aware Inference: Surviving GPU Shortages Without Manual Endpoint Retries
A real-time AI endpoint that fails before serving its first request is not an inference platform. It is a capacity bet. On...
Kubernetes 1.36 Resource Management: Pod-Level Control Without the Old Guesswork
Kubernetes 1.36 is not just another release-note dump. For platform teams running sidecars, GPUs, inference services, and noisy shared clusters, the interesting...
HCP Terraform Infragraph: Why Infrastructure Graphs Matter More Than State Files
Terraform state is not an infrastructure map. It is the memory of a workspace. That distinction became more important on May 4,...
EventBridge PutEvents in CloudTrail: Audit the Event Bus Before It Audits You
Event-driven systems used to have a strange blind spot. You could build a clean EventBridge architecture, route critical business events through it,...