Introduction Someone in leadership says “we need to move to .NET 8” or “let’s get this thing into Azure.” Cool. But when you ask what that actually means — which apps, which order, what happens to production while you’re mid-migration — you often get a vague answer and a timeline that makes no sense. I’ve […]
Modern web applications are becoming increasingly complex, making reliable automated testing an essential part of software development. Among the many testing tools available today, Cypress and Playwright have become two popular choices for E2E testing. Both frameworks provide powerful browser automation capabilities, but they differ in areas such as browser support, component testing, debugging, API […]
AWS DevOps Agent went generally available on March 31, 2026, and it changes what an on-call rotation looks like. The agent starts investigating the moment an alarm fires, correlates telemetry, code, and deployment data across your observability stack, and hands your engineer a root-cause hypothesis instead of a wall of dashboards. AWS reports that preview […]
Introduction This blog provides step-by-step instructions to implement AWS IAM Identity Center with Microsoft Entra ID as the identity source. Authentication is handled via SAML 2.0. User and group provisioning is handled via SCIM 2.0. IAM Identity Center is administered from a dedicated Identity account using Delegated Administration. Prerequisites AWS Organization active with All Features […]
Stop Grepping Logs at 3 AM: Why LLMs are Finally Making AIOps Useful Let me describe a situation that every DevOps engineer knows well. It’s 3:00 AM on a Thursday. You’re deep in REM sleep when PagerDuty starts vibrating on your nightstand with a Severity-1 alert. You drag yourself to your laptop. Slack is buzzing […]
Introduction As applications move from monoliths to microservices, every new service tends to expose its own API. That sounds fine at first—until each service also has to handle its own authentication, rate limiting, logging, and routing. The result is duplicated logic scattered across every service, and clients that need to know about every backend individually. […]
Overview Scope: This guide covers the Datadog Agent, host metrics, tagging, application logs, APM, AWS/EC2 visibility, dashboards, monitors, synthetic checks, validation and troubleshooting. Container platforms such as ECS/Fargate Datadog Architecture The Datadog Agent runs on a host and collects infrastructure telemetry. Additional configuration enables log collection, application traces and integrations. Datadog then provides a common […]
A note before this starts: I used AI to help write this piece. The observations in it aren’t generated, though — they’re what our DevOps team has actually watched happen over the past while. I’m upfront about the tool because the argument here is that the shift itself is real and lived, even if the […]
Introduction: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere now. It helps apps understand text, recognize images, translate languages, and even talk like a human. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers many AI tools that make it easy for companies to add “smart” features to their apps – without needing to build AI models from scratch. In this blog, […]