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We Cut Compliance Costs by 40% Using Pulumi 3.140 and Chef 18 for Multi-Cloud AWS and GCP Modern multi-cloud environments offer unmatched flexibility, but they also introduce complex compliance challenges. For our team managing hybrid infrastructure across AWS and GCP, manual policy enforcement and fragmented tooling were driving up compliance costs by 22% year-over-year. By integrating Pulumi 3
In Q3 2024, our 12-person platform engineering team reduced confirmed security incidents by 41.7% (from 72 to 42 per quarter) after rolling out Trivy 0.50 for pre-deployment scanning and Falco 0.40 for runtime detection across 142 production microservices. We didn’t rewrite our CI/CD pipeline, we didn’t hire a dedicated security team, and we didn’t spend a dime on enterprise security tools. Here’s
There's a moment every developer knows. You need to generate a PDF. It looks simple. You've done harder things. Three hours later, you're reading a Stack Overflow thread from 2016 that ends with "works on my machine." This post is about that moment — the actual options, what breaks in each, and where I landed after years of hitting this in production. It uses a stripped-down WebKit engine and conv