<sub>Hello there! 

The hanami season (the celebration of sakura trees' blooming) and sunshine make it easier for us to wake up, but they can't help with the pile of tasks on our to-do lists. Let's do everything possible to avoid wasting our precious lives on inefficient routines! 

Today, Sergiy and I have prepared the latest news sprouts, productivity tips, the best advice on cost optimization for K8s environments, and much more.</sub>

_{Enjoy the C-Growth Guide!}

• _{The future of AI in knowledge work: Tools for thought at CHI 2025}

• _{Cloud software vendors Atlassian, Snowflake and Workday are betting on security startup Veza}

• _{Qualys has announced updates to its TotalAI service to secure organisations’ MLOps pipelines from development to deployment.}

• _{For science admirers: ML DevOps adoption in practice: A mixed-method study}

• _{Who's the lucky guy? New US CIO appointments, April 2025.}

_{Read more about the technical side of K8s cost optimization in our latest review.}

_{1. Automate your personal environment setup}

_{Use tools like Ansible, Dotfiles, and Homebrew to script your own workstation setup. This means you can nuke and pave your laptop without losing your precious aliases, Vim configs, or that obscure CLI tool you only use during lunar eclipses. Need a guide?}

• _{How to automatically set up a development machine with Ansible}

• _{Setting up a Developer System with Ansible & dotfiles}

• _{Automate Dotfiles Setup Using Ansible}

• _{Autoenv: relax, ansible will setup your dev environment for you}

• _{Setting up a workstation/server and managing dotfiles centrally using Ansible and GNU Stow}

_{2. Schedule “No-Deploy” focus blocks}

_{Block out regular “no-deploy” hours for yourself or your team—time when you’re not allowed to deploy, respond to non-critical alerts, or even look at Slack. Use this time for refactoring, learning, or finally figuring out what that one Jenkins job actually does. More on why and how:}

• _{How to Make Time for Deep Work in DevOps}

• _{Why Deep Work Matters for DevOps Teams}

• _{The Power of Focused Work in a Distracted World}

_{3. Leverage “Runbooks as Code” for learning and handoffs}

_{Don’t just write docs—write executable runbooks with tools like Jupyter Notebooks, Markdown with embedded scripts, or even automation platforms that let you both explain and do the thing. This makes onboarding new team members a breeze:}

• _{Runbooks as Code: The Next Step in DevOps Evolution}

• _{How to Write Effective Runbooks (with Examples)}

• _{Jupyter Notebooks for DevOps Automation}

<sub>Take care of yourself a bit this spring. Your work won't get anywhere. But flowers bloom for only a brief moment!

Thanks for staying with us, sharing, and telling friends to join in.</sub>