The first time I watched a security vulnerability slip through our CI/CD pipeline and make it to production, I felt the same sinking feeling every engineer knows: that moment when you realize the system you trusted has a blind spot. It was 2019, and we had what we thought was a mature DevOps practice. Automated… Continue reading
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MLOps vs LLMOps: A Complete Guide to Operationalizing AI at Enterprise Scale
Understand the critical differences between MLOps and LLMOps. Learn prompt management, evaluation pipelines, cost tracking, and CI/CD patterns for LLM applications in production.
Security as Code: Why DevSecOps Is No Longer Optional in 2025
The traditional approach to security—treating it as a final checkpoint before deployment—has become a liability in modern software delivery. After two decades of building enterprise systems, I’ve witnessed the painful evolution from “security as an afterthought” to “security as code.” In 2025, DevSecOps isn’t just a best practice; it’s a survival requirement for any organization… Continue reading
MLOps Best Practices: Building Production Machine Learning Pipelines That Scale
Master MLOps practices for production machine learning systems. Learn data versioning, experiment tracking with MLflow, CI/CD for ML, model registry governance, and monitoring strategies for AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Azure DevOps Pipelines: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Enterprise CI/CD
After two decades of building and operating CI/CD systems across enterprises of every scale, I’ve watched Azure DevOps evolve from Team Foundation Server into one of the most comprehensive DevOps platforms available. The platform’s strength lies not just in its individual components, but in how seamlessly they integrate to create end-to-end delivery pipelines that scale… Continue reading
Platform Engineering: Building Internal Developer Platforms That Actually Work
After spending two decades building and scaling engineering organizations, I’ve come to a conclusion that might seem counterintuitive: the biggest productivity killer in most enterprises isn’t technical debt, legacy systems, or even organizational politics. It’s cognitive load. Developers spend an unconscionable amount of time navigating infrastructure complexity instead of solving business problems. Platform engineering, done… Continue reading
Understanding Modern IT Methodologies: A Comprehensive Comparison
After two decades of building and operating enterprise systems, I’ve watched the IT operations landscape transform dramatically. What started as siloed development and operations teams has evolved into a rich ecosystem of methodologies, each addressing specific organizational challenges. In this comprehensive guide, I’ll share my perspective on four dominant approaches: DevOps, DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering… Continue reading
DevSecOps: Integrating Security into DevOps
As organizations continue to adopt and accelerate their DevOps practices, it has become increasingly clear that security cannot be an afterthought. Enter DevSecOps – a movement that seeks to integrate security into the entire software development lifecycle. DevSecOps aims to shift security left, empowering teams to take ownership of their security while building and deploying… Continue reading