DevOps

Why Regular Upgrades Are Non-Negotiable in Modern DevOps

Introduction In DevOps, upgrades are rarely exciting. They don’t ship new features (most of the time). They don’t impress clients. They don’t always get leadership applause. And yet, over the years at To The New, one thing has become very clear to us: DevOps teams that do upgrades regularly move faster, stay safer,...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: PlatformEngineering
15-Jan-2026

DevOps

DevOps Is Not a One-Time Setup: First-Year Lessons from the Field

Introduction When teams start on their DevOps journey, the excitement is real. CI/CD pipelines, faster deployments, cloud-native tools, automation everywhere - it feels like everything is finally going to be smooth. But in reality, the first year of DevOps is rarely smooth. It’s messy, experimental, and full of learning. [caption...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: PlatformEngineering
14-Jan-2026

DevOps

Modern Terraform Practices: Removing Resources Safely from State

Introduction and Usecase There are times when we want Terraform to stop managing a resource, but don’t want to delete it from the infrastructure. In this brief blog, I'm going to discuss removing resources from Terraform configuration files while keeping them in real infrastructure. But why would you want to do this in the first...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: PlatformEngineering
29-May-2025

DevOps

Striving for Legacy Transformation: A Pragmatic Approach to Modernizing Monolithic Systems

Nowadays, every org wants to migrate to a microservices architecture; the idea sounds great on paper. But when you're staring at an 8-year or decade-old monolith that processes millions of transactions and somehow never breaks, suggesting a complete rewrite feels... well, insane. I've been down this road more times than I care to admit....

by Sanyam Munjal
Tag: PlatformEngineering
10-Jan-2025