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What is DevOps? Definition, Lifecycle, Best Practices, & Tools

We’ve seen a huge explosion of interest in DevOps over the last few years. But for people who are new to these ideas, it’s not always obvious what DevOps entails and what the benefits are, particularly in larger environments. So, what is DevOps all about? And what do you need to know to succeed? In this blog, you’ll get a breakdown of how DevOps works, its benefits, and the best practices and tools that help teams build and deploy software with speed and confidence.

Every CIO is asking the same question: Am I Next?

Every CIO is asking the same question: Am I next? We’ve seen it across cloud providers, carriers, and global platforms—organizations with enormous scale and investment still experience public, business-impacting outages. The risk isn’t lack of effort. It’s the growing gap between AI-driven complexity and the ability to see, understand, and resolve issues fast enough to protect availability commitments.

Andy Wojnarek Appointed Chief Technology Officer

ATS Group and Galileo are pleased to announce the appointment of Andy Wojnarek as Chief Technology Officer. Andy’s appointment reflects the evolution of a technical leadership role he has developed over more than 16 years with the company, grounded in hands-on expertise, cross-functional influence, and a sustained focus on solving complex infrastructure and observability challenges for clients.

Your servers shouldn't need to know ACME

CertBot assumes every server that needs a certificate should also know how to request one, validate domain ownership, handle renewals, and manage failures. This makes sense with a handful of servers. One server, one cert, done. But infrastructures grow. Now you’ve got web farms sharing wildcards, load balancers, mail servers, VPN appliances. The “every server for itself” model doesn’t scale and isn’t sustainable. Even the Let’s Encrypt community knows it.

Komodor AI SRE vs. OSS AI Agent: A Technical Comparison of Agentic AI for Kubernetes Troubleshooting

Gartner predicts that AI agents will be implemented in 60% of all IT operations tools by 2028, up from fewer than 5% at the end of 2024. This acceleration has sparked an explosion of AI SRE solutions, from enterprise platforms to open-source alternatives, all promising faster root cause analysis and reduced MTTR.

3 Tips for a Smoother Software Deployment Process

Just because software releases have become more frequent doesn't necessarily mean they're always smooth. Many teams can push changes on schedule and still lose time to noisy pipelines, brittle handoffs, and production checks that start only after users complain. The result is work that feels fast until it gets slowed down by issues.

Why test data management is becoming increasingly important to senior IT leaders

We recently sat down with James Phillips, Senior IT Leader, to talk about test data management (TDM) and the growing attention it’s getting from the senior IT leaders. It’s been prompted by the recognition that provisioning test and development environments with realistic production-like data improves the quality of code being developed, reduces errors, and deliver new features to customers faster.