New Blog Post! The Citizen Developer
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Half your company is already routing around IT. The citizen developer has been around since Lotus 1-2-3, and guardrails are the only control ops has left.
AWS forces users to handle the management of kube-proxy in EKS clusters. If you're experiencing strange network behavior in a long-lived EKS cluster, this could be the problem. Let's go over some solutions.
Most Infrastructure as Code implementations expose too much complexity, forcing developers to make infrastructure decisions they shouldn’t have to. This post explores why generic IaC modules fail, how to design abstractions that encode organizational standards while intentionally omitting irrelevant configurations, and how to shift ops from gatekeeping to enablement.
GitOps isn’t the right fit for modern Ops, DevOps, or platform engineering. Learn why static workflows fail to address dynamic cloud complexity and explore better tools for managing real-time infrastructure.
Operations engineering is stuck in the past. This post breaks down why ops hasn’t had the same revolution as software development, explores the limits of DevOps, and argues for scaling expertise through reusable tools and clean abstractions. It’s time for ops to adopt lessons from software engineering and move the industry forward.