Owen Nystrom

GitHub Actions costs small teams almost nothing; Jenkins costs them a DevOps engineer.

Learn which "multi-cloud" actually means before you buy.

Design change detection and deployment scope before picking a CI tool.

Pre-upgrade checks and automation eliminate the downtime risk from quarterly Kubernetes upgrades.

Startups can achieve SOC 2 Type II on AWS in under a year by configuring the right defaults early.

Fly.io trades AWS flexibility for faster production deploys, with real tradeoffs.

Three timing points for secrets injection carry vastly different risk profiles.

Choose based on your risk profile and infrastructure constraints, not convention.

Kubernetes namespaces make per-PR preview environments cheap, isolated, and fast to spin up.

Split your CI/CD pipeline into three files to keep staging and production separate.

Effective container scanning requires coverage at build, registry, and runtime stages.