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GitLab monorepo CI done right: from a monolithic pipeline to tag-routed Runners

Kushagra Bansal — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:07:36 +0000

Introduction We had a monorepo. Frontend, three backend services, a couple of shared libraries, all living in one repo. Great for developers who want to change an API and its caller in a single commit. Rough on CI. The problem showed up slowly and then all at once. Every push, no matter how tiny, kicked […]

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AWS DevOps Agent : Accelerate Incident Response and Improve System Reliability

Pranit Arun Pingale — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:37:00 +0000

Introduction: Imagine receiving a critical production alert at 2 AM. Instead of manually checking logs, metrics, dashboards, and deployment history, what if an AI assistant could instantly analyze the issue, identify the probable root cause, and suggest the next troubleshooting steps? Modern DevOps teams manage increasingly complex cloud environments, making incident investigation both time-consuming and […]

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Modern Frontend Deployment Using AWS Amplify, S3, and Jenkins

Aditi Thakur — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:33:16 +0000

Building a scalable frontend deployment pipeline with automated CI/CD, custom domains, and global delivery Introduction Frontend applications of today need fast deployments, scalability, global reach, and low operational overhead. But plenty of organizations still use traditional server-based hosting where deployments require manual configuration, SSH access, server maintenance, SSL handling, and cache management. As frontend applications […]

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Kafka Monitoring Made Easy with Kafdrop: A Practical Hands-On Guide

Akshay Solanki — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 05:38:16 +0000

Introduction Apache Kafka has become the backbone of modern event-driven architectures, powering everything from micro services communication to real-time analytics and stream processing. As Kafka deployments grow, developers and operators frequently need answers to questions such as: Are messages reaching Kafka successfully? Which partition received a message? Are consumers keeping up with producers? How much […]

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Securing Non-Production Environments from Search Engines

Eram Fatima — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:50:20 +0000

Introduction A few months ago I stumbled on something that made me feel like, “wait, what?” one of our testing sites was showing up in Google search results. It wasn’t supposed to be public, it was a playground for QA and developers, but there it was, indexed and discoverable. That little surprise led to a […]

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ECS Service Discovery VS Service Connect

Ketan Joshi — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:26:48 +0000

Introduction In early microservices architectures on AWS, communication between services relied on infrastructure components like load balancers. There was no native, built-in way for services to discover each other dynamically. A common architecture looked like this: Public DNS → Amazon Application Load Balancer → Frontend Service → Private ALB → Backend Service While this approach […]

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Why Your Monitoring Is Always One Step Behind — And How AI Fixes That

Sahil Sahni — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:04:34 +0000

Introduction Anyone who has managed a production environment at scale knows the feeling. Five dashboards open, three alerts firing, and you’re not sure which one actually matters — while the thing about to cause a real problem isn’t making any noise yet. Modern DevOps infrastructure is complex. Microservices, Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, external APIs — […]

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Managed NGINX Ingress Controller with Application Routing Add-on in AKS

Gaurav — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:50:50 +0000

Introduction Routing HTTP/HTTPS traffic to workloads in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a basic necessity for cloud applications in the modern era. Although the Kubernetes Ingress resource addresses this, the manual work involved in maintaining an ingress controller is a considerable overhead.To address this, Microsoft launched the Application Routing add-on with Managed NGINX Ingress. This […]

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From Zero to Hundreds: Onboarding Your Entire AWS Fleet to Centralized CloudWatch in Under an Hour

Rahul Singh — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:08:49 +0000

If you’ve ever had to jump between six different AWS accounts just to figure out why one Lambda function is behaving oddly – you already know the pain. Multi-account AWS environments are great for security and governance, but they can turn basic monitoring into a logistical nightmare. The good news? AWS gives you everything you […]

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Understanding Azure Cloud Fundamentals for DevOps Engineers

Kunwar Anas Ali — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:06:42 +0000

What is Microsoft Azure Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform. And it does a lot — virtual machines, storage, networking, monitoring, identity management, databases, you name it. The idea is actually pretty simple. Instead of buying physical servers, setting them up in an office or data center, and then maintaining them yourself, organizations just use […]

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Memory in AI: Why Your Agent Forgets Everything — And How to Fix It

Iman Abbas — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:59:38 +0000

Three months into building our DevOps AI agent, I gave a demo of it to the team. Checked pods, read logs, suggested fixes. Everyone was impressed. Then one engineer asked it: “Remember that ingress issue we sorted on Tuesday?” The agent had no idea what she was talking about. I had spent weeks on tool […]

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Cross-Account Centralised Logging in AWS Using S3, KMS, and SQS for SIEM Integration

Umang Dakh — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:23:51 +0000

Introduction In a multi-account AWS environment, log management for services such as Cloud Trail, VPC Flow Logs, and WAF is a complex and fragmented process. This is due to the fact that each account has its own log data, which is not easy for security and operations teams to manage centrally. This issue, however, can […]

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