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How to Balance AI Innovation and Tech Debt in the Cloud

Ido Neeman

Tech executives today are telling their engineering teams to make use of AI now, with little regard for how it is implemented in their systems. For those managing cloud infrastructure, it's creating AI tech debt at an unprecedented scale. Originally published in The New Stack, this blog post will help you strike the right balance.

Governance

Comparing Pulumi and Terraform: Which IaC Tool is Better for Your Infrastructure?

Gourav Bais

Learn about Terraform vs Pulumi, and their pros and cons. Plus, get a detailed comparison to help choose the best IaC tool for your organization.

Cloud tooling
IaC codification

Beyond Orchestration: A Comprehensive Approach to IaC Strategy

Eran Bibi

To channel the power of IaC, organizations need to look beyond tool selection and orchestration to vital, yet oft-overlooked aspects. First published in The New Stack, this article explores the key missing pieces of cloud teams' IaC strategies.

IaC codification
About Firefly
Cloud tooling

Terraform Module Blast Radius: Methods for Resilient IaC in Platform Engineering

Jonathan Lasman

Today, an estimated 80% of Terraform users face challenges with module management — and it’s having a widespread impact on the reliability and resiliency of IaC practices. But how big is this impact, and how far can it reach? Let's explore the concept of "blast radius," or impact radius, in Terraform modules.

Cloud tooling
Tips & tricks

Shift-Left Tagging: Enhancing Cloud Governance with IaC and Firefly

Eran Bibi

The concept of "shift-left" has gained significant traction as of late. This approach advocates for moving operations and quality control earlier in the development lifecycle, as early as the coding phase. Today, we're focusing on how this paradigm can be applied to resource tagging: a critical aspect of cloud governance that benefits immensely from early implementation.

About Firefly
Governance

5 Hacks of Kindness Learned from Writing Thousands of Lines of IaC for All Engineers

Eran Bibi

Unlock the secrets to mastering Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with five powerful strategies that can revolutionize your engineering workflow. Dive into a decade’s worth of hard-earned lessons, and learn how to boost efficiency, enhance security, and scale your infrastructure like never before.

IaC codification
Tips & tricks

The Misconfig Heard Around the World: Why Ops is Always Business Critical

Ido Neeman

The CrowdStrike outage is the largest single vendor outage in recent memorable history, and will end up costing several billion dollars in direct losses. This mega-scale incident provided a moment of clarity that highlighted the necessity of not ignoring infrastructure, cloud configurations, and IaC, and even more so –– not taking your ops teams for granted.

About Firefly

Embracing the Future: Firefly Innovation and the Gartner SRE Hype Cycle 2024

Ido Neeman

Discover how Firefly's innovative solutions are shaping the future of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) as highlighted in the Gartner SRE Hype Cycle for 2024. Join us in celebrating our inclusion in Gartner's report, and see how we're pushing the boundaries of AI, Policy as Code, and cloud resilience to empower platform engineers.

About Firefly

Implementing a Robust Cloud Governance Framework: 4 Steps to Control Your Cloud Infrastructure

Gal Gibli

Discover four essential steps to master cloud governance, ensuring your cloud infrastructure remains secure, compliant, and efficient. Unlock the secrets to control your cloud.

Governance
Tips & tricks

The Cloud Platform Blindspot: Understanding IaC Coverage

Eran Bibi

It's time we shifted our focus to not just implementing IaC, but optimizing it for full coverage. Understanding the gaps in your IaC coverage is essential for cloud governance.

Governance
Cloud tooling