Pub/Sub is a natural fit for event-driven architectures on GCP, but it has a default behaviour that catches enterprise teams off guard. When a subscriber fails to acknowledge a message, Pub/Sub retries delivery indefinitely until the message retention window closes,…
Most cloud engineers rule out retail tech within thirty seconds of seeing the salary bands. A senior cloud engineer at ASOS earns £70,000-£90,000 in London. The equivalent role at a Tier 1 investment bank pays £85,000-£110,000. That visible £15,000-£30,000 gap…
Most enterprise data lakes are ungoverned by design. Research from Gartner estimates that through 2025, 80% of organisations that have invested in data lakes will fail to realise the expected business value, with poor governance and access control cited as…
Most GCP Cloud Armor deployments follow the same pattern: enable the service, attach the preconfigured OWASP rulesets, move on. It feels complete. The problem is that preconfigured rulesets and custom CEL expressions operate on fundamentally different parts of the request…
Most cloud engineers are leaving £15,000-£30,000 a year on the table by applying to the wrong companies. Not because they are underqualified or underselling themselves, but because they are evaluating employers using a framework that only looks at base salary…
Ask any platform engineer who has completed a Terraform to OpenTofu migration how long it took, and you will hear two answers. The first: “About ten minutes to swap the binary and run tofu init.” The second, usually delivered with…
Most GCP teams enable the Container Scanning API, check the Artifact Registry console once, and consider the job done. The scan results sit there, a growing list of CRITICAL and HIGH severity CVEs, while the pipeline keeps pushing images to…
Senior cloud engineers consistently report that the most technically capable colleague in the room is often not the one who gets promoted, passes the professional-level certification on the first attempt, or lands the £150K+ role. Hays’ 2025 Technology Salary Guide…
In August 2023, HashiCorp relicensed Terraform under the Business Source License, quietly rewriting the terms that millions of infrastructure teams had built their toolchains on. For organisations already running Terraform in production, the immediate impact was ambiguous enough to justify…
GitHub detected 39 million leaked secrets in 2024, a 25% year-on-year increase, and credential theft now drives 35% of all cloud security incidents according to IBM’s X-Force Threat Intelligence Index. The uncomfortable reality for most Azure teams is that service…
