Digest #171: Git Optimization, FinOps X, Terraform State, Kubernetes 1.33, and DevOps Security Threats

GitLab’s 41-min backup breakthrough, AI-powered FinOps from the cloud giants, Infrastructure-from-Code pitfalls, Terraform state best practices, Kubernetes live pod resizing, cryptojacking in CI/CD.

Welcome to this week’s edition of the DevOps Bulletin!

GitLab engineers reduced backup times from 48 hours to just 41 minutes by revisiting a long-standing Git function. At FinOps X 2025, major cloud …