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Argo CD and Kargo: promoting releases safely
Argo CD keeps environments matching Git, and Kargo promotes a release stage by stage only after checks pass.
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Notes on rates, platform, DevOps, SRE, QA and AI work, with figures from our own projects.
Build or buy an internal developer platform?
You rarely build an internal developer platform from scratch or buy one whole, so decide which layers you own.
DORA metrics: how to measure and improve them
DORA has five metrics, and you can measure each one per application from Git and deploy records.
Forward deployed engineer vs a consultancy: which to hire
Hire a forward deployed engineer to fix things inside your systems, a consultancy for an outside view.
Grafana vs Datadog: cost, lock-in and OpenTelemetry
Datadog bills per host and event, Grafana per unit of data, and OpenTelemetry should come first with either.
Platform engineering vs DevOps vs SRE: who does what
DevOps is the practice, SRE is one way to run operations, and platform engineering builds the internal product.
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- Staff augmentation, managed services and fixed-scope projects
- Platform engineering and internal developer platforms
- CI/CD, infrastructure as code and safe releases
- SRE, observability and QA automation
- AI agents and forward deployed engineering
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