### 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.

#### About the Spacelift blog

Spacelift’s collaborative platform for infrastructure as code (IaC) enables DevOps teams to manage complex cloud infrastructures with ease. In line with our reputation as an authority on all things related to IaC management, we pride ourselves on sharing only the most precise, comprehensive, and actionable content related to our areas of expertise. See our [Editorial Policy](https://spacelift.io/blog/editorial-guidelines).

[**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.](https://spacelift.io/blog/compliance-cost-of-drift)

#### Recent posts

[**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.](https://spacelift.io/blog/forensic-readiness)

[**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.](https://spacelift.io/blog/how-to-pass-your-next-audit)

[**Women in Tech in 2026: 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.](https://spacelift.io/blog/women-in-tech-statistics)

[**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.](https://spacelift.io/blog/spacelift-wins-winter-2024-intellyx-digital-innovator-award)

[**AWS re:Invent 2025: An In-Depth Guide** \
See everything you need to know about AWS re:Invent 2025, review of the 2024 version, and suggestions for other events.](https://spacelift.io/blog/aws-reinvent-guide)

[**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.](https://spacelift.io/blog/women-in-devops)

[**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.](https://spacelift.io/blog/aws-summit-stockholm-2023)

[**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.](https://spacelift.io/blog/aws-summit-berlin-2023)

[**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.](https://spacelift.io/blog/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2023)

[![IT’s Stressful. Ask DevOps, They’ll Know: Stress in the IT Sector [2026 Survey Update]](https://spacelift.io/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fspacelift.io%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F08%2F92.stress-in-it.png&w=3840&q=75)](https://spacelift.io/blog/are-it-jobs-stressful)

[**IT’s Stressful. Ask DevOps, They’ll Know: Stress in the IT Sector \[2026 Survey Update\]** \
Is workplace stress a thing in the IT sector? How do stress levels of IT pros compare to non-IT people? Are DevOps engineers the most stressed?](https://spacelift.io/blog/are-it-jobs-stressful)

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