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The New Testing Pattern: Standardizing Regression for Cloud Migrations (Mon, 09 Feb 2026)
“Cloud Lift” (migrating on-premises systems to the cloud) is often sold as a simple infrastructure change. In reality, for large-scale administrative systems, it is a high-risk operation. When you move a system handling millions of transactions — such as unemployment insurance or tax processing — you cannot afford a single calculation error or performance regression. The challenge lies in validating that the new system behaves exactly like the old one across thousands of business scenarios. Manual testing is too slow, and unit tests often miss the holistic impact of infrastructure changes.
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Context Engineering Is a Must-Learn Skill: Here's How Everyone Can Master It (Mon, 09 Feb 2026)
The Rise of Context Engineering In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, a new discipline has emerged that separates those who simply use AI tools from those who truly harness their power: context engineering. While prompt engineering has been the buzzword of the past few years, context engineering represents the next evolutionary step — a more sophisticated, systematic approach to working with large language models (LLMs) and AI systems. Context engineering is the art and science of designing, constructing, and optimizing the information environment in which an AI model operates. It goes far beyond crafting clever prompts; it encompasses the entire ecosystem of data, instructions, examples, and constraints that shape an AI’s understanding and outputs. As AI systems become more powerful and are integrated into critical business processes, mastering context engineering has become not just advantageous—it’s essential.
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Distributed Systems and Cloud Efficiency: A Deep Dive (Mon, 09 Feb 2026)
Cost Is a Distributed Systems Bug The first time you watch $18,000 evaporate overnight because someone left autoscaling unbounded on a Kubernetes cluster that decided to provision 400 nodes for a traffic spike that never materialized, you stop thinking about cloud bills as accounting theater. Cost becomes what it always was: a failure mode with teeth. Zoom’s FinOps team saw their AWS spend double from $20K to $40K daily — not gradually, not with warning klaxons, just a jump that would burn through $600K in thirty days if left unaddressed. The mechanics were mundane: a feature rollout triggered cascading retries in a microservice mesh, with each retry spawning EC2 Spot instances that didn’t terminate cleanly. The cost spike manifested before the performance degradation did. Traditional monitoring missed it entirely because nobody had instrumented the bill.
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Building a Self-Healing Observability System with AWS Bedrock AgentCore (Mon, 09 Feb 2026)
In today’s fast-paced cloud environments, keeping systems running smoothly isn’t just about monitoring them — it’s about making them smart enough to fix themselves. Enter the world of self-healing observability systems, where AI agents detect issues, analyze root causes, and take corrective actions without human intervention. With AWS Bedrock AgentCore, a powerful platform for building and deploying AI agents at scale, you can create a system that is reliable, secure, and efficient. In this article, we’ll dive deep into how to build such a system from scratch, complete with code examples, practical diagrams, and real-world insights. By the end, you’ll have a blueprint to implement your own self-healing setup.
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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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