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Strategic and technical articles from the UDX team - covering compliance, cloud architecture, DevOps, and digital transformation.

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CMMC Phase II Is Suspended. Your Security Obligations Are Not. The Pentagon halted third-party audits, but NIST 800-171, DFARS 7012, and the signed affirmation still apply. A plain-language guide for defense contractors. Your Branch Name Is Your Deployment Policy A twelve-line YAML policy maps git branches to environments, gates production behind branch protection, and makes idle environments disposable. Shipping a Kubernetes App to the Azure Marketplace Defender-zero image supply chains, CNAB packaging, non-root CI, and purchase-flow validation - the engineering behind a certified marketplace offer. WordPress at a Million Visitors Can WordPress handle a million visitors? Yes, with the right architecture: edge caching, stateless Kubernetes tiers, and offloaded media. Preview Environments for Dynamic Sites A preview of a dynamic site has to run: server, secrets, live data, and firewall. How we built one for a Dallas music venue and what it caught. Letting AI Agents Work on Production An AI agent ships code and content to this site daily under full SDLC controls. The delivery system that makes agent access to production boring. When a Data Change Is a Production Deployment A content edit on a database-backed platform is live the instant you save. The three gates that give data changes code-grade safety. Preview Environments for Static Sites Give every branch and pull request a live preview URL on CloudFront and S3. Just YAML and the infrastructure you already own. WordPress Security Services What attacks on a WordPress site actually look like, hardened containers, automated patching, and a real plan for when something breaks.

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