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…
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…
Observability specialists in the UK now command a median salary of £80,000, representing a 14% premium over general DevOps engineers and an 18% premium over cloud engineers. More striking still, senior observability roles at the 90th percentile reach £130,000, a…
AI isn’t replacing cloud engineers earning £80,000-£150,000+ in the UK market. It’s creating a stark division between those who master AI augmentation and those who don’t. Research from SPG Resourcing reveals AI-skilled cloud professionals command a 23% salary premium over…
The Problem You’re running Veeam or Commvault in the cloud with agents on every VM, paying licensing costs, managing agent updates, dealing with backup windows that impact production, and still waiting 2-4 hours for VM restores. Your backup solution was…
Platform engineering roles commanding £72,500-£160,000+ aren’t just about technical skills; they’re about strategic positioning with the right certifications at the right career stages. Kubernetes expertise sits at the centre of this career explosion, with the global Kubernetes market surging from…
Multi-cloud adoption reached 89% among enterprises in 2024, yet Gartner predicts 50% of these implementations will fail to deliver expected results by 2029. The disconnect between adoption and success reveals an uncomfortable truth: multi-cloud is frequently a solution searching for…
The Problem You’re managing hundreds of Azure VMs but have no visibility into what’s actually configured inside them. Are Windows servers allowing weak passwords? Is SSH configured securely on Linux? Which VMs have configuration drift from your security baseline? Without…
The landscape of Google Cloud Platform adoption shifted dramatically in May 2024. Organisations creating new GCP accounts now receive automatic security baseline enforcement: a paradigm change that elevated landing zones from “nice to have” to foundational infrastructure. For cloud architects…
Professional Development Friday: Part 6 – Final of our Infrastructure as Code Mastery Series Over the past five weeks, we’ve built a comprehensive Infrastructure as Code foundation: from basic Terraform deployments through multi-environment management, sophisticated module design, and automated CI/CD…
