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A platform engineer builds a platform of tools and workflows to enable better software development. In this blog, find out what a platform engineer actually does, skills that separate the good from the great, and what to look for when adding engineers to build your platform.

Want to migrate to the cloud? Learn from our experience – read this blog with strategies to avoid cloud migration mistakes first.

Get smarter about Day 1 of the software development life cycle with strategies that will help you succeed.

Configuration drift is going to happen no matter what you do. It’s very easy to miss, caused by some innocuous mistake or patch and buried in paper trails that don’t exist. By the time you’ve found which configurations have drifted, it usually means something’s already going wrong. But here’s the good news: You and your precious configurations don’t have to take it lying down.

What is continuous delivery? Explore the benefits of the continuous delivery pipeline and how it supports software delivery.

Policy as code is an infrastructure management approach where you write policies as code so they can be enforced at scale. In this blog for sysadmins and IT ops managers, we’ll share a few PaC tools, examples, use cases, and compare PaC to infrastructure as code (IaC).

Build a strong server provisioning foundation from Day 0 configuration and beyond — we can help you start with a strategy for long term success.

With high scrutiny and heavy penalties for failing a SOX audit, SOX compliance is a must for publicly traded US companies. Read our blog for the highlights, how IT helps pass a SOX audit + how to stay compliant year-round.

IT operations is responsible for day-to-day IT maintenance, optimization + IT strategy. In this blog, find out what IT operations teams actually do, how they contribute to better work across an organization, and why IT ops automation is essential for better, scalable IT.

Exploring how to learn Puppet? Check out our training offerings and weigh the pros and cons of each to meet your learning needs.

Security automation tools can make your IT strategy fireproof by taking manual work out of your team’s hands. In this blog, we’ll explain how out how security automation tools can handle some of the biggest day-to-day challenges for enterprises, like security and compliance.

The old way we’ve thought about configuration management software has passed — we need a new perspective that takes into account the importance of policy enforcement. Let’s dig deeper into what this means for DevOps, your overall security and compliance strategy, and IT.