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Blog posts in the Automation category

Best Practices for Multi-Cloud CI/CD Pipelines

Practical guidance to standardise tools, centralise secrets and optimise costs while scaling CI/CD across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

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CDN Optimisation for Video Streaming Analytics

How to reduce buffering, shorten start-up times and cut costs with data-driven CDN strategies: real-time monitoring, multi-CDN, AI caching and edge tuning.

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Disaster Recovery in Hybrid Cloud: Step-by-Step Guide

Step-by-step guide to hybrid cloud disaster recovery: assess critical systems, pick an architecture, secure backups, automate failover and test recovery.

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How to Automate Spot Instance Management

Automate spot instance provisioning and interruption handling with Auto Scaling, infrastructure-as-code and orchestration tools to cut cloud costs and keep services reliable.

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Cloud Pricing Models: Study on Scalability Trends

Analysis of cloud pricing models, waste drivers and practical fixes - PAYG, Reserved and Spot strategies, autoscaling and AI-driven right-sizing cut costs.

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How Pay-As-You-Go Pricing Reduces Cloud Costs

Pay-as-you-go cloud pricing charges only for resources used, prevents overprovisioning and lowers bills through scaling, scheduling and rightsizing for variable workloads.

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Integrating E2E Testing into CI/CD Pipelines

Practical guide to integrating E2E tests into CI/CD: plan workflows, prepare Docker/headless browser infrastructure, choose tools, parallelise tests and troubleshoot flakiness.

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Hybrid Cloud DR Testing: Ensuring Compliance

Regular hybrid cloud DR testing proves recoverability, enforces UK GDPR/PCI/ISO compliance, and exposes configuration gaps before they cause outages.

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AI in CDN Optimisation for E-Commerce

AI improves CDN performance for e‑commerce with predictive caching, smart routing and edge personalisation—cutting latency, raising cache hits, lowering costs.

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Automating ISO 27001 Compliance in Private Clouds

Automate ISO 27001 compliance in private clouds with continuous monitoring, policy-as-code, drift control and automated evidence to speed audits and cut errors.

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How to Map IaC to Pipeline Configurations

Integrate IaC into CI/CD pipelines: validate and test, security-scan, manage remote state, and plan/apply for repeatable, auditable deployments.

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Best Practices for Compliance in DevOps Pipelines

Integrate Policy as Code, automated SAST/SCA/IaC scans and continuous monitoring into CI/CD to keep deployments audit-ready and tamper-proof without slowing delivery.

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