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Aoife O'Carroll

Aoife is a content writer and manager with more than two decades of experience. Based in Ireland, her focus is on the tech industry, working as a senior content manager with the IaC management platform Spacelift.

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The Compliance Cost of Drift: Why Auditors Don’t Trust Your Terraform

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The Compliance Cost of Drift: Why Auditors Don’t Trust Your Terraform

Learn why Terraform environments fail audits and how to prevent configuration drift with audit-ready, trustworthy infrastructure practices.

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Forensic Readiness: Why It Matters When Things Go Wrong

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Forensic Readiness: Why It Matters When Things Go Wrong

Explore the compliance side of forensic readiness and learn what documentation and audit evidence are needed to meet modern requirements.

How to Pass Your Next Infrastructure Audit Without Wasting Two Sprints

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How to Pass Your Next Infrastructure Audit Without Wasting Two Sprints

Learn how DevOps teams can embed audit readiness into every sprint by integrating security into cloud infrastructure and IaC workflows.

Women in Tech in 2025: 50+ Statistics Point to a “Bro” Culture

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Women in Tech in 2025: 50+ Statistics Point to a “Bro” Culture

Explore women in tech statistics and hear insights from industry leaders on navigating the gender gap in today’s tech landscape.

Spacelift Wins 2024 Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx

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Spacelift Wins 2024 Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx

Intellyx has just revealed we’ve won the Winter 2024 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award, crowning a year of achievement for Spacelift.

AWS re:Invent 2024: An In-Depth Guide

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AWS re:Invent 2024: An In-Depth Guide

See everything you need to know about AWS re:Invent 2024, review of the 2023 version, and suggestions for other events.

Why Women Should Choose a Career in DevOps – and How to Get Started

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Why Women Should Choose a Career in DevOps – and How to Get Started

Why women should choose a DevOps career? See ways to close the gender gap and detailed advice on how to get started in a DevOps career.

Join Spacelift at AWS Summit Stockholm 2023

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Join Spacelift at AWS Summit Stockholm 2023

Are you ready for AWS Summit Stockholm? Let’s meet there! Our engineers will be at booth S11 with our Spacelift swag, so do visit.

Meet Spacelift at AWS Summit Berlin 2023

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Meet Spacelift at AWS Summit Berlin 2023

Going to AWS Summit Berlin? Let’s meet there! Our team will be at booth S10 with Spacelift swag, so do drop by.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

Going to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023? Let’s meet there! Spacelift will be in Amsterdam for the cloud-native conference of the year.

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