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Cloud Outages 2025–2026: What the Post-Mortems Mean for Your Architecture

The autumn 2025 AWS, Azure Front Door and Cloudflare outages share a pattern: control failed, not hardware. What to map, how to design recovery and what to test.

Cloud15 min

Why most enterprise AI pilots never reach production, and what sets the successful ones apart

The “95% of AI pilots fail” figure has weak methodology, but McKinsey and S&P confirm the trend. What sets companies that get AI into production apart, and what infrastructure to have ready.

AI11 min

FinOps in 2026: Where Companies Overpay in the Cloud and How to Measure It in One Week

Estimated cloud waste rose to 29% this year. Where companies overpay most – Kubernetes, forgotten resources, non-production environments – and how to measure it in five days.

Cloud12 min

AI-written code: what the data says about security, quality and why code review is stalling

Measurements show the security of AI-generated code is not improving, and the queue has moved to code review. What 2025–2026 data says and which automated gates to introduce.

AI12 min

The new Czech Cybersecurity Act one year on: what must be in place in cloud and CI/CD

The one-year deadline under Act No. 264/2025 Coll. runs from delivery of the registration decision. What NÚKIB's decrees mean for identity, logs, backups and pipelines in AWS and Azure.

Regulation13 min

Shadow AI: your employees already use AI. How to govern it instead of banning it

Employees use AI even without approval, and a ban only hides it. What breach data shows, what Article 4 of the AI Act requires, and how IT can put rules and controls in place in 30 days.

AI12 min

Digital sovereignty: what the “sovereign” clouds of AWS, Microsoft and Google actually offer

The sovereign clouds of AWS, Microsoft and Google address data location and operational access, not the parent company’s legal reach. A framework: data classification, own keys, an exit plan.

Cloud14 min

AI Agents in Production: How to Set Permissions So They Don’t Delete Your Database

Replit, PocketOS, Amazon Q: documented AI agent incidents share a root cause in permissions. How to set up identities, RBAC, sandboxing and approval so it doesn’t happen to you.

AI12 min

The End of Ingress NGINX: How to Plan a Migration to Gateway API

Ingress NGINX has been archived and unpatched since March 2026. How to scope the work, choose a Gateway API implementation and move traffic gradually, with fast rollback.

Kubernetes & platform13 min

AI Act after the Digital Omnibus: What Was Delayed and What Applies Now

The Digital Omnibus moved high-risk AI systems to December 2027. But Article 50 transparency, the prohibitions and AI literacy still apply. What IT should do now.

Regulation12 min

Deployment Automation in the AI Era: Why Shipping Became the Bottleneck

AI writes code several times faster, but the path to production never changed. Project templates, Kubernetes templating, GitOps, and automated rollback.

Kubernetes & platform18 min

Terraform and AI Agents: When Modules Help and When They Hurt

Measurements across five production repos on AWS and Azure: 169 shared-module references, zero pinned versions, zero tests. And how to keep consistency without spaghetti code.

Kubernetes & platform15 min

CI/CD Security - Pipeline Security Guide

Comprehensive guide to CI/CD pipeline security - secrets management, security gates, secure deployment, and DevSecOps integration.

Security5 min

AWS Cloud Security - Infrastructure Guide

Comprehensive guide to AWS cloud infrastructure security - IAM, access management, security groups, roles, and enterprise best practices.

Cloud7 min

Container Security - Docker & Kubernetes

Comprehensive guide to Docker container and Kubernetes cluster security - image scanning, runtime protection, secrets management, and network policies.

Security9 min

DAST - Dynamic Application Security Testing

Dynamic Application Security Testing - penetration testing of running applications, OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, and runtime security automation.

Security9 min

Getting Started with DevSecOps Guide

A comprehensive beginner's guide to DevSecOps - what you need to know, which tools to use, and how to implement security into your DevOps process.

Security4 min

IaC Security - Terraform & GitOps Guide

Terraform security scanning, policy as code, GitOps principles, and IaC best practices for secure infrastructure deployments.

Security7 min

SCA - Software Composition Analysis

Everything about Software Composition Analysis and dependency security - SBOM, third-party library scanning, Snyk, and Dependabot.

Security8 min

Security Best Practices - Defense in Depth

How to implement layered security in your applications and infrastructure using the Defense in Depth approach and least privilege principles.

Security4 min

Security Monitoring & Logging Guide

Complete guide to security monitoring and logging - CloudTrail, CloudWatch, SIEM integration, and automated alerting for incident detection.

Security7 min

Vulnerability Management Guide

Complete guide to vulnerability management - DefectDojo, CWE, prioritization, remediation, and DevSecOps pipeline integration.

Security6 min

Fix Your Infrastructure Chaos Before Adopting AI

AI won't fix your infrastructure problems - it will multiply them. Why IT managers must address infrastructure chaos before adopting AI tools.

AI5 min

Kubernetes Zero-Downtime Deployments: A Complete Guide

Learn how to achieve zero-downtime deployments in Kubernetes using rolling updates, blue-green deployments, and canary releases.

Kubernetes & platform5 min

OWASP Top 10:2025: The Most Critical Web Application Security Risks

The current OWASP Top 10: new categories for the software supply chain and exceptional conditions, SSRF merged into access control. What changed since 2021 and how to defend.

Security12 min

SAST - Static Application Security Testing

Complete guide to Static Application Security Testing - tools, best practices, CI/CD integration, and automatic vulnerability detection.

Security6 min

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