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GitLab monorepo CI done right: from a monolithic pipeline to tag-routed Runners

Kushagra Bansal — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:07:36 +0000

Introduction We had a monorepo. Frontend, three backend services, a couple of shared libraries, all living in one repo. Great for developers who want to change an API and its caller in a single commit. Rough on CI. The problem showed up slowly and then all at once. Every push, no matter how tiny, kicked […]

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Modern Frontend Deployment Using AWS Amplify, S3, and Jenkins

Aditi Thakur — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:33:16 +0000

Building a scalable frontend deployment pipeline with automated CI/CD, custom domains, and global delivery Introduction Frontend applications of today need fast deployments, scalability, global reach, and low operational overhead. But plenty of organizations still use traditional server-based hosting where deployments require manual configuration, SSH access, server maintenance, SSL handling, and cache management. As frontend applications […]

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Managing High Volume Email in Microsoft 365: Accounts, Billing Policies, and Operational Pitfalls

Deepak — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:20:19 +0000

Introduction Apps and devices generate a lot of internal email, monitoring alerts, payroll notices, printer scans, that no human ever needs to read individually but every business still depends on landing reliably. Routing that through a normal mailbox works until it doesn’t: throttling, deliverability problems, no clean way to track what’s actually being sent. Microsoft […]

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From 100MB to 50GB: Migrating DynamoDB Tables Across AWS Accounts

Meghna Rawat — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:44:18 +0000

You’d think moving data from one AWS account to another would be straightforward. Export it, import it, done. That’s what the documentation implies, and honestly, that’s what I assumed going in. It wasn’t. What started as a data migration quickly turned into a system reconstruction problem. In DynamoDB, data alone is only half the story. […]

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ECS Service Discovery VS Service Connect

Ketan Joshi — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:26:48 +0000

Introduction In early microservices architectures on AWS, communication between services relied on infrastructure components like load balancers. There was no native, built-in way for services to discover each other dynamically. A common architecture looked like this: Public DNS → Amazon Application Load Balancer → Frontend Service → Private ALB → Backend Service While this approach […]

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Why Your Monitoring Is Always One Step Behind — And How AI Fixes That

Sahil Sahni — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:04:34 +0000

Introduction Anyone who has managed a production environment at scale knows the feeling. Five dashboards open, three alerts firing, and you’re not sure which one actually matters — while the thing about to cause a real problem isn’t making any noise yet. Modern DevOps infrastructure is complex. Microservices, Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, external APIs — […]

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Managed NGINX Ingress Controller with Application Routing Add-on in AKS

Gaurav — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:50:50 +0000

Introduction Routing HTTP/HTTPS traffic to workloads in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a basic necessity for cloud applications in the modern era. Although the Kubernetes Ingress resource addresses this, the manual work involved in maintaining an ingress controller is a considerable overhead.To address this, Microsoft launched the Application Routing add-on with Managed NGINX Ingress. This […]

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From Zero to Hundreds: Onboarding Your Entire AWS Fleet to Centralized CloudWatch in Under an Hour

Rahul Singh — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:08:49 +0000

If you’ve ever had to jump between six different AWS accounts just to figure out why one Lambda function is behaving oddly – you already know the pain. Multi-account AWS environments are great for security and governance, but they can turn basic monitoring into a logistical nightmare. The good news? AWS gives you everything you […]

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Understanding Azure Cloud Fundamentals for DevOps Engineers

Kunwar Anas Ali — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:06:42 +0000

What is Microsoft Azure Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform. And it does a lot — virtual machines, storage, networking, monitoring, identity management, databases, you name it. The idea is actually pretty simple. Instead of buying physical servers, setting them up in an office or data center, and then maintaining them yourself, organizations just use […]

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Memory in AI: Why Your Agent Forgets Everything — And How to Fix It

Iman Abbas — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:59:38 +0000

Three months into building our DevOps AI agent, I gave a demo of it to the team. Checked pods, read logs, suggested fixes. Everyone was impressed. Then one engineer asked it: “Remember that ingress issue we sorted on Tuesday?” The agent had no idea what she was talking about. I had spent weeks on tool […]

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Microsoft Entra ID Access Packages: Complete Implementation Guide for Secure and Automated Access Governance

Deepak — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:36:16 +0000

Introduction Managing who has access to what — across applications, security groups, and enterprise resources — is one of those problems that sneaks up on you. Governance at this level is non-negotiable in enterprise product engineering services, where security, compliance, and identity management must be designed into the product architecture from day one. That’s exactly the […]

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AI-Powered Log Monitoring in Azure

Deepak — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:35:25 +0000

Introduction Modern cloud-native systems generate millions of log entries every day. But here’s the real question — are we truly extracting meaningful insights from those logs, or just storing them? AI-Powered Log Monitoring in Microsoft Azure combines Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, and Azure OpenAI Service to transform raw telemetry data into actionable intelligence. Instead […]

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