https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/series/cloud-operations/Recent content in Cloud Operations on Osmond van HemertHugo -- gohugo.ioen© Osmond van Hemert. All rights reserved.Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/260212-cloud-finops-engineering-ownership/Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/260212-cloud-finops-engineering-ownership/FinOps has evolved from a finance initiative to an engineering discipline, and the teams that treat cloud costs as a first-class engineering metric are winning.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/251204-opentelemetry-logs-ga-three-pillars/Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/251204-opentelemetry-logs-ga-three-pillars/OpenTelemetry’s logging API and SDK reaching general availability completes the observability trifecta. Here’s why this matters more than you might think.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/250130-stargate-project-ai-infrastructure/Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/250130-stargate-project-ai-infrastructure/The newly announced Stargate Project promises $500B in AI infrastructure investment. What does this mean for the cloud landscape and developers building on top of it?https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240829-nvidia-earnings-ai-infrastructure/Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240829-nvidia-earnings-ai-infrastructure/NVIDIA’s Q2 FY2025 earnings show 122% year-over-year revenue growth. The numbers reveal where AI infrastructure is heading.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240425-ibm-hashicorp-acquisition/Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240425-ibm-hashicorp-acquisition/IBM’s $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp signals a major consolidation in the cloud infrastructure space. Here’s what it means for Terraform users and the broader IaC community.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240411-broadcom-vmware-licensing-shakeup/Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240411-broadcom-vmware-licensing-shakeup/Broadcom’s aggressive restructuring of VMware’s licensing and product portfolio is forcing organizations to rethink their virtualization strategies.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240229-nvidia-earnings-ai-infrastructure-boom/Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240229-nvidia-earnings-ai-infrastructure-boom/NVIDIA’s record Q4 earnings reveal the staggering scale of AI infrastructure investment and what it means for developers and cloud architecture.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/221006-cloudflare-r2-storage-wars/Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/221006-cloudflare-r2-storage-wars/Cloudflare R2’s general availability challenges AWS S3’s dominance with zero egress fees and full S3 API compatibility, reshaping the economics of cloud storage.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220901-heroku-ending-free-tier/Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220901-heroku-ending-free-tier/Heroku’s decision to eliminate free dynos and databases marks the end of an era. Where do developers go now for easy, free deployment?https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220526-broadcom-vmware-acquisition/Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220526-broadcom-vmware-acquisition/Broadcom’s proposed $61B acquisition of VMware could reshape the enterprise cloud and virtualization landscape for years to come.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220127-terraform-1-1-iac-maturity/Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220127-terraform-1-1-iac-maturity/Terraform 1.1 brings refactoring support and moved/imported blocks, signaling that Infrastructure as Code tooling is growing up.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/211118-centos-stream-9-enterprise-linux-shift/Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/211118-centos-stream-9-enterprise-linux-shift/CentOS Stream 9 has arrived as the successor to both CentOS 8 and the traditional CentOS model — and the enterprise Linux community is still adapting.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210930-facebook-bgp-outage-internet-fragility/Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210930-facebook-bgp-outage-internet-fragility/Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram went down for six hours due to a BGP misconfiguration, exposing how fragile the internet’s routing infrastructure really is.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210701-terraform-1-0-infrastructure-as-code-milestone/Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210701-terraform-1-0-infrastructure-as-code-milestone/After years of 0.x releases, Terraform hits 1.0 with stability guarantees. What this means for the IaC ecosystem and your existing workflows.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210610-fastly-cdn-outage-single-points-failure/Thu, 10 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210610-fastly-cdn-outage-single-points-failure/When a single configuration change at Fastly took down half the internet, it exposed uncomfortable truths about how we build on CDN infrastructure.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210603-gitops-argocd-cncf-incubation/Thu, 03 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210603-gitops-argocd-cncf-incubation/With ArgoCD accepted into CNCF incubation and Flux reaching its own milestones, GitOps is transitioning from buzzword to standard practice for Kubernetes deployments.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210527-microsoft-build-2021-developer-platform/Thu, 27 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210527-microsoft-build-2021-developer-platform/Microsoft Build 2021 doubled down on the developer platform strategy with Azure improvements, deeper GitHub integration, and a clearer vision for the cloud-native developer workflow.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210311-ovhcloud-datacenter-fire/Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210311-ovhcloud-datacenter-fire/A catastrophic fire at OVHcloud’s Strasbourg datacenter destroys thousands of servers and raises hard questions about cloud resilience and backup strategies.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210218-texas-grid-cloud-resilience/Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210218-texas-grid-cloud-resilience/The Texas power grid failure is knocking out data centers and cloud services, offering hard lessons about infrastructure resilience, multi-region architecture, and the physical realities underlying our digital systems.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/201015-hashicorp-waypoint-boundary/Thu, 15 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/201015-hashicorp-waypoint-boundary/HashiCorp announced two new open-source tools at HashiConf Digital — Waypoint for application deployment and Boundary for secure remote access. Here’s why they matter.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200709-terraform-013-module-foreach/Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200709-terraform-013-module-foreach/Terraform 0.13 brings count and for_each to modules, automatic provider installation, and custom validation rules. A look at what changes in practice.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200702-redis-6-acls-threading-production/Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200702-redis-6-acls-threading-production/Redis 6.0 brings ACLs and I/O threading to the world’s most popular in-memory data store. Here’s what the changes mean in practice.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200611-cicd-pipeline-security-remote-work/Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200611-cicd-pipeline-security-remote-work/As teams rushed to enable remote development workflows, CI/CD pipelines became a prime target. Here’s what’s going wrong and how to harden your build infrastructure.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200409-infrastructure-as-code-pandemic-scaling/Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200409-infrastructure-as-code-pandemic-scaling/The sudden shift to remote work has stress-tested Infrastructure as Code practices at unprecedented scale. Here’s what’s working, what’s breaking, and what we should learn.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200305-tech-remote-work-infrastructure/Thu, 05 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200305-tech-remote-work-infrastructure/As tech companies start mandating work-from-home policies amid growing COVID-19 concerns, the infrastructure supporting remote work faces its biggest test yet.