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.
Identity-based permissions break self-service. We tolerated it for twenty years because the breakage was slow. Agents remove that buffer entirely.
AI agents need real infrastructure to test against. Not plans. Not mocks. We are building disposable, isolated environments where agents do the labor and humans make the call.
Struggling to scale Infrastructure as Code? This post explains why CI/CD pipelines and Git workflows break down for modern cloud infrastructure, how brittle IaC practices slow teams, and why a new foundation—pipeline-less delivery with built-in policy, compliance, and orchestration—can help DevOps scale and empower developers safely.
It’s a Symptom of Platform Design, Not Developer Behavior.
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.
At Massdriver.cloud, we are always keen to bring you the latest insights and thought leadership in the world of platform engineering and DevOps. Our latest podcast episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of cloud infrastructure and its evolution.
For teams ingrained in DevOps practices, this term ushers in a broader horizon, a fresh perspective on managing infrastructure. But what does Platform Engineering offer, especially for those adept in DevOps?
Generating OpenTofu or Terraform from existing cloud resources is a tedious process fraught with gotchas. It's not a silver bullet for click-ops debt. This post will discuss caveats of tools and different approaches to generating IaC.
Improving your organization's position in the DevOps Maturity Model involves focusing on specific practices, tools, and processes that align with the capabilities and needs of each maturity level.
Using common DevOps tooling shouldn't be this hard.
A misaligned text bug that was not CSS.
The Massdriver bundle spec helps engineers provision applications and infrastructure in the cloud while shrinking the surface area of the cloud API
Massdriver simplifies cloud monitoring with an intuitive graph of in-context metrics, allowing for quick creation of dashboards, alarm setting, and efficient system troubleshooting.
Massdriver Changelog May 31st 2023
Massdriver Changelog March 8th 2023
The CIDR problem, and how we fixed it with Auto-CIDR
A Critique of How We've Fooled Ourselves for Years.