Sophie Wilson, Author at DevOps Oasis

Oddly Calm Microservices at 99.95% Without Drama

Pragmatic microservices playbook: boundaries, canary releases, OpenTelemetry, data patterns, on-call sanity, and guardrails to reach 99.95% without 3 a.m.

October 12 by Sophie Wilson Microservices

Ship Faster With 99.9% Compliance: A DevOps Playbook

A practical DevOps playbook for turning compliance into code: CI gates, policy-as-code, SBOMs, signing, logging, and lightweight controls that don’t slow d

October 8 by Sophie Wilson Compliance

Ship Faster: Turning Compliance Into 99% Boring Automation

Practical guide to making compliance mostly automatic: policy-as-code in CI/CD, provenance attestations, drift remediation, risk-based exceptions, and metr

October 2 by Sophie Wilson Compliance

Make scrum Deliverables, Not Drama, in 2-Week DevOps

Practical, DevOps-first scrum: tie goals to flow metrics, encode “done” in CI, use ephemeral envs, and run lean ceremonies that improve reliability and del

September 29 by Sophie Wilson Scrum

Reduce 43% Rollback Pain With Terraform That Scales

Practical, code-first terraform habits: pinned versions, locked state, diff-first CI, drift checks, and kinder policies that make infrastructure changes fa

September 22 by Sophie Wilson Terraform

Stop Guessing: Helm Done Right in Under 30 Lines

A practical Helm playbook: sane chart structure, strict values schemas, safe upgrades, signed releases, and CI checks that catch bugs before they hit clust

September 17 by Sophie Wilson Helm

Bake Relentless Cybersecurity Into DevOps Without Slowing Releases

A DevOps manager’s take on practical cybersecurity: guardrails that speed delivery, pipelines that scan smartly, signed artifacts, least privilege, and inc

September 11 by Sophie Wilson CyberSecurity

Stop Treating Jenkins Like a Pet: 9x Safer Pipelines

Practical Jenkins patterns for safer, faster CI: immutable controllers, ephemeral agents, readable pipelines, lean plugins, concrete security, and honest o

August 29 by Sophie Wilson Jenkins

Cut Lead Time 47% With Boring kanban Habits

Practical kanban for DevOps: set sane WIP limits, wire lightweight guardrails, measure cycle time, and treat incidents explicitly to cut lead time fast.

August 25 by Sophie Wilson Kanban

Stop Treating Agile Like Magic: 37% Fewer Incidents

Practical agile without theater: thin slices, rock-solid CI/CD, SLO-driven decisions, and Kubernetes safety nets that cut incidents while keeping releases

August 22 by Sophie Wilson Agile