Dependency updates are one of those things teams keep postponing. Not because they do not care, but because every update feels like a risk. A small version bump can break a build, fail tests, or create unexpected issues in production. That is why I built Update Dependencies , a GitHub Action that keeps dependencies up to date automatically and opens a pull request, gated on your checks passing whe... [read more]

Every workflow run stays in your Actions history forever, unless you clean it up yourself. After a year or two of CI, that history turns into thousands of runs nobody will ever open again. Scrolling through them to find anything useful becomes painful. That is why I built Prune Old GitHub Actions Runs , a GitHub Action that deletes workflow runs older than a number of days you choose, on a schedul... [read more]

Give a term like "system administrator" to the marketing-loving, "buzzword-loving" non-technical managers; then you'll get: #DevOps #DevSecOps #GitOps #AIOps #MLOps #LLMOps #PlatformOps #CloudOps #DataOps #FinOps #SecOps #NetOps #SysOps #ITOps ... and even #NoOps 🤣 wow [read more]

What is vendor lock-in? Vendor lock-in refers to a situation where an organization becomes overly dependent on a specific vendor's products or services, making switching to alternatives costly, time-consuming, or technically difficult. Over the years, many companies have experienced frustration when trying to move away from large vendors like IBM, Microsoft, or Oracle due to contractual constraint... [read more]