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How to Measure & Improve Engineering Ops (with Cortex)

Is your engineering org actually getting better, or just shipping more? In this overview, we dive into how leadership and platform teams use Cortex to move beyond manual audits and spreadsheets. Learn how to transform "tribal knowledge" into a data-driven culture of engineering excellence by centralizing visibility and automating operational standards. Key Highlights: Mission Control: Using the Service Catalog to map dependencies and ownership without the Slack-pinging or Wiki-hunting.

Secure and Compliant DevOps in an AI-Enabled World

Is Your DevOps Strategy Ready for the AI Era? AI is accelerating modern software delivery—but it’s also raising the stakes for security, compliance, and auditability. As AI-driven change increases, many organizations are discovering that incomplete DevOps practices are creating new risk. Based on insights from 800+ global IT professionals, the 2026 State of DevOps Report reveals why vendor‑backed, enterprise‑grade DevOps platforms are becoming critical for managing AI‑driven risk and meeting evolving regulatory demands.

The reality check: why manual debugging setups are a hidden factory

The first 70% of a debugging cycle is usually spent on "plumbing", the undocumented toil of syncing databases, matching service versions, and aligning networking to mimic a production failure. This manual setup is a hidden factory that consumes senior engineering capacity and delays recovery. True velocity is found by eliminating the infrastructure variables that make bugs hard to reproduce.

How To Reduce Cloud Costs in 2026: Proven Strategies That Actually Work

To reduce cloud costs, organizations need to address three root causes: over-provisioned resources, shared infrastructure without clear owners, and cloud bills that can’t be explained at the feature or customer level. The most effective programs combine rightsizing, commitment-based discounts, idle resource elimination, and unit economics — and deliver 20–30% reductions in monthly spend without impacting performance. CloudZero customers average 22% savings in year one.

Node Groups: Organize Your Infrastructure Into Reusable Views

When you’re managing a handful of nodes, the flat list in the nodes tab works fine. When you’re managing hundreds or thousands, it becomes a wall of hostnames. You end up applying the same filters repeatedly: all the production database servers, all the nodes in eu-west, all the Kubernetes workers in the staging cluster. The filters work, but they don’t persist, and there’s no way to share them with the rest of your team. Node groups solve this.

Open Source Cloud Cost Management Tools: OpenCost, Kubecost, and More

Open source software is an essential component of business operations. According to Harvard Business School, 96% of commercial software includes open source code. If companies were to build these tools from scratch, it would cost an estimated $8.8 trillion — roughly 3.5 times what companies currently spend on software. That’s not great for the bottom line. Many open source solutions are also available as standalone tools. Consider Kubernetes.

#055 - From Enterprise Java to Kubernetes and AI-Driven Infrastructure with Dan Hicks (Boomi)

Dan breaks down the fundamental similarities and stark differences between application development and platform engineering. He shares the unexpected hurdles he faced during his transition, from complex networking and CoreDNS latency to the harsh realities exposed by chaos testing in cloud environments.

Why True Operational Security Requires an Unmanaged Cloud VPS

When deploying infrastructure for sensitive communications, penetration testing, or privacy-centric applications, your threat model must account for the human element. Handing over the root access of your server to a "managed" hosting provider fundamentally breaks that model. In 2026, serious security practitioners know that true OPSEC cannot exist in an environment where support staff have administrative backdoors into your operating system.