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Cut Toil 38% With Plainspoken itops Practices

Practical itops playbook: cut toil by 38% with cleaner alerts, usable runbooks, SLO-focused signals, and small, safe rollouts. Calm reliability without her

October 5 by CIWiseMan ITOps

Trim Fat, Ship Faster: docker Images 38% Smaller

Lean docker practices for smaller images, safer defaults, and calmer deploys. Multi-stage builds, caching, secrets, Compose, and Kubernetes with practical

October 4 by CIWiseMan Docker

Cut 38% MTTR With ai Guardrails That Stick

Practical guardrails and configs for using ai in DevOps: cleaner telemetry, safer pipelines, faster incidents, and measurable wins—without waking you at 3

October 3 by CloudOptimist AI

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

Cut docker Build Times by 63% With Pragmatic Patterns

Cut docker build times with BuildKit, multi-stage images, lockfiles, cache-to/from, and lean bases—faster CI, smaller images, and safer releases without he

October 1 by CloudExplorer Docker

Ship kubernetes Changes 37% Faster With Saner Pipelines

Practical kubernetes release patterns: build once, GitOps promotion, progressive delivery, smart probes, and guardrails. Ship 37% faster without drama or e

September 30 by WebCustodian Kubernetes

Ship Faster With Docker: 47% Fewer Surprises

Practical Docker patterns: lean images, BuildKit caching, digest-based deploys, safe defaults, observability, and CI guardrails that cut surprises without

September 28 by CloudOptimist Docker

Seven Surprisingly Costly kubernetes Mistakes We Finally Fixed

Hard-won kubernetes lessons: SLOs, guardrails, right-sized pods, networking, state, resilience, and autoscaling. Real configs and links, minus the buzzword

September 27 by CloudExplorer Kubernetes

Stop Guessing and Make Helm Boringly Reliable

Practical, battle-tested helm patterns for reliable charts: sane values, signing, testing, progressive delivery, and fleet operations—without 2 a.m. rollba

September 26 by CloudExplorer Helm

Cut 38% Pages: itops That Actually Sleeps

Practical itops playbook: calm the pager, tighten signals, rewire on-call, ship safer releases, and automate runbooks. Real-world steps for 30–40% fewer pa

September 25 by CIWiseMan ITOps