Tag: DevOps
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Infrastructure as Code Is Not DevOps
Last month, March 2026, Iranian drone strikes hit AWS data centers in the Gulf. The me-south-1 region went offline, and developers scrambled. On Reddit, the stories split into two camps. One developer lost everything. They had Terraform templates. They had infrastructure defined in code. What they did not have was drift detection, cross-region reproducibility, tested…
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DevOps Theater: When the Culture Never Actually Changed
A couple of years ago, I was brought in to assess the delivery practices of a mid-size financial services company. They had all the artifacts of a modern engineering organization: a CI/CD pipeline, infrastructure as code templates, a dedicated SRE team, Slack channels named after microservices. The CTO proudly told me they had “completed their…
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How Financial Institutions Can Build Cloud Operational Readiness in 90 Days
In my previous post, The Hidden Cost of Unpreparedness, I described the challenge facing a financial services company migrating 180+ servers without the operational foundation to succeed. The risks are real: cost overruns, security gaps, compliance failures, and burned-out teams. But here’s the question I keep hearing: “If we need to build this foundation, how long will…
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Behind AI Scenes: From Design to Operation in the Enterprise
Last week I had the privilege of speaking at the Cari AI Summit 2025, where I shared one of the topics I’m most passionate about: how AI truly moves from design to operation in the enterprise. As someone who has spent nearly three decades building and leading technology solutions across industries, from telco and banking…
