DevOps
CI/CD Explained: Continuous Integration and Delivery from the Ground Up
Learn CI/CD from someone who built pipelines before the tools existed. Continuous integration and delivery principles, patterns, and hard-won lessons.
CI/CD
DevOps
Cloud Infrastructure Testing: Testcontainers, Terratest, and Testing Your IaC After LocalStack Went Away
LocalStack ended its free tier in March 2026. Here is how to rebuild a real infrastructure testing practice with Testcontainers, Terratest, Moto, and Terraform's native test framework.
DevOps
Ephemeral Preview Environments: How to Give Every Pull Request Its Own Full-Stack Kubernetes Deployment
How to implement per-PR ephemeral preview environments on Kubernetes using ArgoCD ApplicationSets, Neon database branching, wildcard TLS, and automated cleanup — plus an honest look at managed platforms like Okteto and Bunnyshell.
Security
Secrets Detection in Git Repositories: Gitleaks, TruffleHog, GitGuardian, and Stopping Credential Leaks Before Attackers Do
A principal cloud architect's guide to detecting leaked credentials in git history, CI logs, and container images using Gitleaks, TruffleHog, and GitGuardian. Includes pre-commit setup, CI integration, and how to handle the scary historical scan.
Data & Analytics
MLOps in Practice: Building Production ML Pipelines That Don't Fall Apart
Most ML projects never reach production. MLOps is the discipline that bridges the gap between a working model in a notebook and a reliable system running in the real world. Here's how it actually works.
DevOps
Dagger Explained: Writing CI/CD Pipelines in Go, Python, and TypeScript Instead of YAML Hell
Dagger, from the creator of Docker, turns your CI/CD pipelines into real code that runs identically on your laptop and in any CI system. Here's how it works and when it's worth the migration.