Engineering Toil: The Real DevOps Bottleneck

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Every cloud team knows the feeling: low-leverage, repetitive work that keeps the lights on but doesn’t move the business forward. We have a name for that— engineering toil. And in today’s high-stakes, high-velocity cloud environments, toil isn’t just annoying. It’s expensive. It eats up engineering time, slows delivery, and blocks innovation. It’s also avoidable. What […]

AWS Atlantis at Scale: How to Streamline Terraform Workflows

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As cloud infrastructure becomes increasingly complex, many DevOps teams use AWS with Atlantis to automate Terraform workflows. This open-source tool links Git pull requests to Terraform operations. It helps teams improve Infrastructure as Code practices across different environments. It also helps maintain governance on a large scale. Terraform is widely adopted for provisioning AWS infrastructure—but […]

Terraform AWS Automation: Scalable Best Practices

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Terraform has become essential for automating and managing AWS infrastructure. It is a tool called Infrastructure as Code (IaC). It helps DevOps teams manage and set up AWS assets in a cost-effective way. Terraform AWS provider is designed to interact with AWS, allowing teams to use code to provision AWS resources such as EC2 instances, […]

How DORA and Cloud Governance Prevent DevOps Burnout

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DORA explains how improved cloud governance can combat burnout and boost DevOps efficiency. The Google DORA (DevOps Research & Assessment) Community provides opportunities to learn and collaborate on Cloud Governance solution, software delivery, operational performance and continuous improvement. Its State of DevOps 2024 report delves into ways to increase DevOps resilience, wellbeing and efficiency. The […]