Why Posture and Policy Gates in DevOps Matter – Lessons from a Major Accidental Code Leak as a Teacher
One of my colleagues is developing a new cloud platform with us and he demands a strict DevOps posture from our team. My team and I are aligned. A recent incident - thousands of other incidents can be referred to - makes clear: fail here, and you may face serious trouble protecting your data or intellectual property.
Internet Services
October 20, 2025: When An Outage Went Global
On October 20, 2025, a disruption in AWS’s US-EAST-1 (Northern Virginia) region began as a local issue with DynamoDB. Within minutes, EC2 instances in the same cluster were also affected. What seemed like a local hiccup quickly cascaded into a global outage, disrupting applications, banks, and public services worldwide.DevOps
Netbox - A Tool for Documentation, Inventory, Automation
This post provides a sneak-peak into NetBox, an open-source application designed to function as the central documentation for IT infrastructure. We will dissect its architecture, data models, and extensibility, focusing on its role within a robust, automated operational ecosystem.
A Guide to Markdown
Markdown is used almost anywhere due to its simplicity.Netbox, for example, used comment fields supporting markdown https://netbox.timewarp.at/static/docs/reference/markdown
My web content is based on markdown.
My development docs, e.g. on github or gitlab, are in markdown.
Which format can Confluence import? Markdown!
Want more than millions of pages? Look for yourself 😆