The Agent Harness: The Real Foundation of Enterprise AI
Why the agent harness – not the AI model or the generated code – determines the success of enterprise AI initiatives, and how to build one in five steps.
Governing Agentic AI Safely: Zero Trust and Compliance for AI Agents
AI agents are transforming the enterprise at speed – and the risk is growing just as fast. How the "in dubio pro securitate" principle, formal verification, and zero trust keep agentic AI safe and compliant.
Greater Transparency in IT Asset Management: How IT Leaders Uncover Hidden Costs
Most enterprises already have enough asset data – what they lack is visibility. How a lightweight tool turns administrative data into real decision-making insight, and uncovered nearly €50,000 a year in savings for one customer.
Atlassian Cloud Migration: From Server and Data Center to the Cloud
Why moving to Atlassian Cloud matters now, what the cloud offers and how a migration succeeds from assessment to go-live.
System Availability with Active-Active Architecture in Banking
Five Active-Active architecture designs we implemented for a banking client in Google Cloud – with the obstacles we faced and the lessons we learned.
Shift Left: Catching Bugs Earlier in Your Development Cycle
Bugs found late cost time, money, and trust. The shift-left approach moves testing and quality assurance as early as possible into the development cycle.
Release Management with Jira: Fixing Problems, Streamlining Processes, Securing Quality
Unclear ownership, manual steps, and time pressure turn releases into chaos. Here's how Jira brings structure, automation, and quality to your release management.
Post-Incident Review Best Practices for Jira Service Management
A post-incident review is more than a closing report – it helps you understand root causes, improve processes, and draw valuable lessons from every incident. Here's how to run one effectively in Jira Service Management.
Self-Service: Meaning and Challenges
Without self-service, companies drown in administrative tasks. We explain what self-service is, which challenges it solves, and which tools you can use to build it.
What Is Developer Self-Service? An Overview
What developer self-service is, the types that exist, its advantages and drawbacks, and how it works in practice – a comprehensive overview.
How to Use AI Safely and Efficiently in the Enterprise with Azure and OpenAI
Learn how to use artificial intelligence securely, compliantly, and efficiently within your organization using Azure and OpenAI – an overview.
End of Atlassian Server Support: What Happens If You Don't Migrate From Server to Cloud?
Atlassian has ended support for its Server products. Here's what staying on Server puts at risk, and why the cloud is the future-proof choice.
Webinar Recap: Platform Engineering – AWS Account Setup With JSM
Transform your cloud infrastructure with Platform Engineering and JSM Cloud – our webinar shows you how.
What Is Platform Engineering?
Platform engineering, internal developer platforms, and developer self-service – we explain the terms, the differences between them, and walk through a real-world example built on Jira Service Management and AWS.
A Comparison of Popular Container Orchestration Tools
Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, and Azure Container Apps compared head-to-head: features, benefits, use cases, and a comparison table to help you decide.
Deep Dive: Monitoring and Observability for DevOps Teams
Concepts, best practices, and tools: how monitoring and observability help DevOps teams catch problems earlier and ship software faster and more reliably.
DevOps: Advanced Techniques for Optimizing Your Build-Test-Deploy (CI/CD) Pipeline
From incremental builds to blue/green deployments: advanced techniques DevOps teams use to fine-tune their build-test-deploy pipeline.
DevSecOps in Manufacturing
Manufacturers are increasingly becoming software companies. DevSecOps helps them break down silos, build in security from the start, and stay competitive.
DevSecOps Glossary
From Agile to vulnerability scanning: the key DevSecOps terms explained in one place.
How Cloud Security Can Drive Business Success
An unsecured cloud can cost companies millions per incident. Here's how authentication, encryption, and access control cut risk and boost ROI.
The Essential Role of Security in DevSecOps
DevOps ships fast – but speed without security is risky. Why DevSecOps brings development and security together, and how companies benefit.
Guide: Troubleshooting and Fixing Production Issues in Distributed Systems
A structured guide to troubleshooting distributed systems – from post-mortem analysis to post-incident review.
10 Best Practices for Deploying and Managing Microservices in Production
From clear ownership to chaos testing: 10 best practices for running microservices reliably in production.
What Is DevSecOps and How Does It Improve the Software Development Process?
How DevSecOps builds security into the entire development process – with real-world examples from Capital One and eBay, and metrics for measuring success.
How to Deploy to Production 100 Times a Day (CI/CD)
Trust, small changes, and a frictionless CI/CD pipeline: how XALT built a development culture that supports dozens of deployments a day.
What Is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
Infrastructure as code replaces manual server configuration with machine-readable definition files. Here are the benefits, the challenges, and the key tools.
5 Key Skills for Becoming a DevSecOps Engineer
DevOps knowledge, secure SDLC, application security, cloud infrastructure, and communication: the five skills that define a DevSecOps engineer.
How to Get Started with DevOps Automation – and Why It Matters
DevOps automation enables faster, more consistent deployments and fewer manual errors. We cover the typical challenges and how to get started.
DevOps: How to Get Started
New to DevOps? A crash course on automation, monitoring, CI/CD, and the culture you need to get started successfully.
The Benefits of Digital Business Processes
According to McKinsey, digitizing information-intensive processes can cut costs by up to 90 percent. What other benefits digital business processes bring – and how to get started successfully.
Digitized Business Processes for a Better Customer Experience
Customers buy from companies that give them the best, most seamless digital experience. Why digitized business processes are the key to a consistently great customer experience.
Post-Mortem Analysis: How to Actually Learn from an Incident
Mistakes happen – the question is whether you learn from them. How to build a blameless post-mortem culture in your DevOps organization, illustrated by Facebook's 2021 outage.
Keynote Container8 – The All-in-One DevOps as a Service Platform
Late last year, we launched Container8 – a DevOps as a Service platform. At Serview Festival, Benjamin Nothdurft of codecentric AG showed exactly how it works in practice in a live keynote.
The CALMS Framework
CALMS is a framework that helps you assess your organization's readiness for DevOps and measure progress throughout a DevOps transformation.
Faster Time to Market with DevOps
How DevOps and CI/CD speed up your software's time to market – through deployment automation, test automation, and efficient bug fixes.
Common DevOps Pain Points
From system outages to rollbacks to canary releases: the common IT pain points that DevOps methods like blue-green deployment and infrastructure as code actually solve.



































