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Empowering Self-Service Users in the Digital Age
Creating and evolving an intuitive yet secure self-service portal for users consuming IT resources has become a key undertaking for many organizations.
Jul 9, 2024 · 3 minAll articles by Benjamin Brial
Showing 1–8How to Get Platform Engineering Just Right
Getting platform engineering right helps organizations create an environment that drives their teams to develop solutions more efficiently.
A Manifesto for a More Sustainable Cloud Future
Benjamin Brial talks about the steps necessary for organizations to create a more sustainable cloud future.
How Platform Engineering Can Drive Digital Sobriety
If we’re being honest, the “green issue” currently isn’t the priority it needs to be for a lot of companies. At best, they are ticking the box marked ‘sustainability’ and paying lip service to a trendy topic. At worst, they are engaging in nothing more than greenwashing. Considering carbon emissions from cloud computing have now […]
How Platform Engineering Protects Profit, People and our Planet
Platform engineering offers lots of tangible benefits for businesses, but sustainable platform engineering can be even better.
DevOps and Hybrid Cloud: Life in the Fast Lane, Part Two
In the early years of cloud computing, cost savings were the major driver of adoption. These days, however, organizations are increasingly faced with spiraling expenditures, waste and a lack of control. As cloud usage bills and inefficiencies start to balloon, these challenges are beginning to undermine the benefits of migrating in the first place. The […]
DevOps and Hybrid Cloud: Life in the Fast Lane?
Scream if you want to go faster! When it comes to a dual hybrid-cloud-and-DevOps rollout, most organizations would admit they’re eager to get going a little bit faster. But what started so enthusiastically can turn to frustration (and a different kind of screaming starts) when they’ve accelerated into this major transformation without considering all the […]
Bridging the Developer Experience (DevX) Gap
They say our past experiences have an impact on how we view life and our general outlook. Routine behaviours and patterns become a program that we follow day in, day out. We stop using our minds to their fullest potential and become trapped in unquestioning, continual cycles of process and emotion. The same could be […]