Frigga Blogs

Most engineering leaders cannot tell you, with numbers, whether their organisation is actually healthy. They can quote headcount, story points, and how busy everyone looks, none of which answer the question. There is a better answer, and…

On a lot of teams, infrastructure changes still happen the way they did five years ago. An engineer runs terraform apply from their laptop, watches the output scroll, and hopes. The cost of that shows up as drift, when the real infrastr…

Most teams' container images are far bigger than the application inside them, and almost nobody notices until the bill or the breach arrives. The trend is measurable, and it is going the wrong way. Sysdig's 2025 Cloud-Native Secu…

Most teams test on one shared staging environment, and most teams quietly accept the queue, the drift, and the "it works on staging" arguments that come with it. The cost is measurable. One developer-productivity study found th…

Every engineer on your team waits for the pipeline, several times a day, and most of you have quietly accepted it as the cost of doing business. There is a benchmark for what good looks like. CircleCI, looking at millions of pipelines, p…

Ask a team running Kubernetes what is actually deployed in their production cluster right now, and most cannot tell you with certainty. The manifests in the repository are a close guess, not a guarantee, because the last few changes went out…