AWS cost optimisation checklist for small teams
An AWS cost-cutting checklist for small teams: budgets, anomaly alerts, rightsizing, Savings Plans, Graviton, Spot, gp3, idle resources, S3 and log retention.
DevOps
Monitoring, CI/CD, hosting and cloud cost work for small teams, written from the systems I run for clients.
CI/CD tools compared: GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins and more
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, CircleCI, Buildkite and Argo CD compared for small teams: free limits, runners, OIDC, caching and a decision table.
Host a website for free on Cloudflare Workers (static assets)
Host a low-traffic static site free on Cloudflare Workers: plan limits, wrangler.jsonc, custom domain, _headers with CSP and HSTS, redirects and CI deploys.
MCP servers for DevOps engineers: what to install in 2026
The MCP servers worth adding to Claude Code and Codex for DevOps and cloud work, how to scope their credentials, and how to contain prompt injection.
New Relic free tier: free infrastructure monitoring in 2026
What New Relic's free tier includes, how to install the Linux agent, add APM, logs, synthetics and alerts, and stay under 100 GB a month.