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Scaling Infrastructure as Code in Enterprise Automation (Mon, 19 Jan 2026)
As we approach the "2025 Cliff" — a predicted shortage of skilled IT personnel combined with the rapid aging of legacy systems — enterprises face a dilemma. We must modernize infrastructure to survive, but we lack the headcount to do it manually. The industry answer is Infrastructure as Code (IaC). However, moving from manual operations to code-based automation is not just a technological shift; it is a cultural and skill-based chasm. Traditional Ops teams possess deep domain knowledge (network routing, OS kernel tuning) but often lack the software engineering skills required to maintain complex Ansible Playbooks or Python scripts.
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Top 5 Payment Gateway APIs for Indian SaaS: A Developer’s Analysis (Mon, 19 Jan 2026)
As Indian SaaS companies, e-commerce platforms, and service providers increasingly target global markets, the need for robust international payment integration has become paramount. While numerous payment gateways offer cross-border capabilities, the developer experience and the specific API features required to handle these transactions efficiently — especially given India’s unique compliance landscape — vary significantly. Simply processing a charge isn’t enough. Developers need APIs that elegantly handle multiple currencies, diverse global payment methods, stringent security protocols such as 3D Secure 2.0, and, crucially, provide programmatic access to the data required for Indian regulatory needs like the Foreign Inward Remittance Certificate (FIRC). Manual processes for compliance or reconciliation simply don’t scale.
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Self-Healing Infrastructure Automation Platform That Reduced MTTR by 40% (Mon, 19 Jan 2026)
Why We Built a Self-Healing Platform In large-scale infrastructure, incidents rarely occur because systems are poorly monitored. They occur because on-call engineers are forced to interpret massive volumes of signals in real time, often with incomplete context and under strict recovery targets. That was our reality. We had strong observability coverage — metrics, logs, alerts, dashboards, and runbooks. Yet during incidents, recovery still depended heavily on human judgment. The issue was not detection; it was manual correlation, root cause identification, and execution under pressure.
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Coding Exercise: Database Migration Tool in NodeJS (Mon, 19 Jan 2026)
Database management is a vast and dynamic industry. There are a lot of nice schema migration tools: some are standalone, like Atlas, some are a part of a broader ecosystem, like Drizzle or Prisma.  I prefer simplicity and narrow specialization over tools that try to solve everything, so my choice would be a migration tool that operates on top of bare SQL statements. I couldn't find such a tool in the JavaScript ecosystem, so I figured this would make a great exercise.
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DevOps Cafe Podcast

DevOps Cafe Ep 79 - Guests: Joseph Jacks and Ben Kehoe (Mon, 13 Aug 2018)
Triggered by Google Next 2018, John and Damon chat with Joseph Jacks (stealth startup) and Ben Kehoe (iRobot) about their public disagreements — and agreements — about Kubernetes and Serverless. 
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DevOps Cafe Ep 78 - Guest: J. Paul Reed (Mon, 23 Jul 2018)
John and Damon chat with J.Paul Reed (Release Engineering Approaches) about the field of Systems Safety and Human Factors that studies why accidents happen and how to minimize the occurrence and impact. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org
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DevOps Cafe Ep. 77 - Damon interviews John (Wed, 20 Jun 2018)
A new season of DevOps Cafe is here. The topic of this episode is "DevSecOps." Damon interviews John about what this term means, why it matters now, and the overall state of security.  Show notes at http://devopscafe.org
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