DevOps insights, best practices, and technical deep-dives from the Southern Lights team.
Francisco Bobadilla · November 2, 2026
AI made writing code faster. For most teams it did not make shipping software faster — it moved the bottleneck downstream and hid the cost in review queues, security backlogs, and operational toil. Here is how to tell whether it has happened to you.
Francisco Bobadilla · October 26, 2026
Three incidents in one week — a signed malicious release, a PaaS breach that froze deployments, and a single-zone failure that took down a whole cloud region — exposed the same gap: the distance between the controls we have and what those controls actually guarantee.
Francisco Bobadilla · February 20, 2023
Understanding Kubernetes probes and why you shouldn't set them blindly.
Juan Caivano · February 19, 2023
How GitOps principles can transform your infrastructure management and deployment workflows.