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8 IT Infrastructure Automation Use Cases to Prioritize

IT infrastructure automation sounds simple enough on the surface, right? You take repetitive infrastructure work, turn it into automated workflows, and give engineers more time for higher-value problems. This may seem easy, but in practice, it gets more interesting. Modern IT environments are spread across cloud platforms, legacy systems, identity tools, ITSM platforms, monitoring systems, network devices, and business-critical applications.

The bottleneck has moved. AI is rewriting the Software Development Lifecycle

If you've read our previous piece on the 8 stages of AI engineering maturity, you know where your team sits. Turns out adopting AI is the easy part; adapting to its consequences is where most organizations struggle. For more than a decade, software organizations optimized around a single assumption: implementation capacity was scarce.

Why CI/CD Pipelines Miss Runtime Failures

CI/CD pipelines do four things: it builds code, runs tests against mocked dependencies, lints for style violations, and scans for known vulnerability patterns. What it cannot do is validate how that code behaves under real users, real service responses, and real runtime constraints that staging was never configured to reproduce. That entire class of failure clears every gate cleanly and surfaces only in production.

Why route diversity is critical to resilient global connectivity

Subsea cables have long been the invisible backbone of the internet, carrying more than 95% of global data traffic beneath the ocean’s surface. Today, they are no longer just background infrastructure, they sit at the centre of an increasingly complex digital and geopolitical landscape. The rise of artificial intelligence, alongside continued cloud expansion and hyperscale data centre growth, is driving unprecedented demand for high-capacity, low-latency connectivity.

ClickHouse LowCardinality: When It Helps and When It Hurts

ClickHouse LowCardinality cuts storage and speeds up queries on low-cardinality columns, but backfires on trace IDs. How to tell the difference. Prathamesh works as an evangelist at Last9, runs SRE stories - where SRE and DevOps folks share their stories, and maintains o11y.wiki - a glossary of all terms related to observability.

The Miasma worm explained: How it Hit Red Hat and Microsoft

Miasma has already hit Red Hat and 73 Microsoft GitHub repos. Here's how it works and what your team can do right now. Nigel Douglas, Head of Developer Relations at Cloudsmith, breaks down the Miasma worm – a self-replicating supply chain attack and evolved variant of Mini Shai-Hulud from threat group TeamPCP. Learn how Miasma uses the yo-yo attack method to move laterally across registries and workstations, why conventional scanners missed it, and the practical steps security teams can take today, including cooldown policies and continuous risk assessment.

The Biggest Surprise Was the Support | Minga & Control Plane

"The biggest surprise was how much support we've gotten from the Control Plane team." — Minga Most teams know the drill: unless you're paying a lot, you don't get real support from GCP or AWS. Minga found the opposite with Control Plane. Whenever an infrastructure issue comes up, the Control Plane team jumps in — digging through logs, tracking down the root cause, and staying in the trenches even when the problem isn't theirs to fix.

New Pipeline Triggers | Bitbucket Blitz | Atlassian

Bitbucket Pipelines already supports triggering on repository pushes and pull request pushes. But if you wanted to react to other events like a deployment finishing, a build failing, or a PR getting merged, you had to wire that up yourself with webhooks or external glue code. New trigger types let you define those conditions directly in your YAML. You can fire custom pipelines on events like pipeline-completed, deployment-completed, pullrequest-created, pullrequest-fulfilled, and more.