DevOps Blog

ECS is AWS's simpler, proprietary container service with no control-plane fee; EKS is managed Kubernetes with the full ecosystem but a per-cluster cost. Fargate is serverless compute for either. Here is the honest decision for startups, and when you actually need Kubernetes.

Jenkins is a self-hosted automation server you run yourself; GitHub Actions is managed CI/CD built into GitHub. Here is the honest decision, GitHub Actions for low-ops CI on GitHub, Jenkins for self-hosted control or complex pipelines, plus whether Jenkins is still worth it in 2026.

Terraform is multi-cloud and uses HCL; CloudFormation is AWS-native and manages state for you. Here is the honest decision, use Terraform for multi-cloud or any non-AWS service, CloudFormation if you are all-in on AWS, plus what the OpenTofu split means in 2026.

Docker and Kubernetes are not competitors. Docker builds containers, Kubernetes orchestrates them at scale, and you often use both. Here is the real difference, and an honest answer to whether your team actually needs Kubernetes yet.

Most startups hire a full-time DevOps engineer too early. The real signs it is time, the ones that mean not yet, and when to outsource (DevOps as a service) instead of hiring.

DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering overlap, but each optimizes something different: flow, reliability, and developer experience. The honest difference, and which one your company actually needs.