Category: Articles
Infrastructure as Code in 2026: Drift, Policy, and the Terraform vs OpenTofu Decision
June 23, 2026Most organisations now say they "do Infrastructure as Code," and most of them are only partly telling the truth. Firefly's 2025 State of Infrastructure as Code found that while 72% of organisations use IaC, only about one-third have codified more...
Observability vs Monitoring: What Senior Engineers Need to Know in 2026
June 15, 2026Most teams say they "monitor production" and assume that means they will know what is wrong when something breaks. At low scale that assumption usually holds. Across dozens of services, ephemeral infrastructure and third-party dependencies it quietly stops being true...
The SDLC Reckoning in Semiconductor Engineering: Why Delivery Discipline Now Decides Who Ships
June 11, 2026For a semiconductor engineering organisation, the software delivery problem is no longer adjacent to the hardware problem. It is the hardware problem. A modern multi-die part coordinates firmware, EDA scripting, driver stacks, embedded software, verification environments, and HPC infrastructure across...
Shipping Faster Without Grounding the Fleet: SDLC Discipline for High-Availability Travel Platforms
June 10, 2026If you run engineering for a booking, reservations, or operations platform in travel, transport, or logistics, you are managing a contradiction that got sharper in 2025. Your throughput is up. Your delivery stability is not necessarily following. The same tooling...
DevOps Under DORA: Engineering Discipline for Regulated Financial Delivery
June 9, 2026Every engineering leader in financial services is now managing the same contradiction. The business wants the deployment cadence of a fintech challenger. The regulator wants documented, reproducible, defensible control over every change that touches a payment, a ledger, or customer...
