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Building CI/CD Observability at Scale: What Federal Engineering Teams Should Take From GitLab’s Playbook

GitLab’s recent CI/CD observability field guide is a useful starting point. The lessons that matter for federal self-managed environments are the ones underneath the YAML.

May 10, 2026·9 min read
Building CI/CD Observability at Scale: What Federal Engineering Teams Should Take From GitLab’s Playbook
The Missing Layer Between Federal AI Strategy and Federal AI Results
INSIGHT10 min

The Missing Layer Between Federal AI Strategy and Federal AI Results

Most federal agencies have an AI mandate. Few have a platform that can ship one. The missing layer is platform engineering....

May 10, 2026Read
Closing Security Gaps in Cloud-Based AI Deployments
INSIGHT7 min

Closing Security Gaps in Cloud-Based AI Deployments

Combining AI with the public cloud creates real velocity for federal programs. It also creates a class of security problems that t...

May 17, 2025Read
Secure File Exchange Modernization with AWS Transfer Family
CASE STUDY7 min

Secure File Exchange Modernization with AWS Transfer Family

Confidential Federal Agency

A federal agency replaced its legacy SFTP/FTPS infrastructure with a managed, FedRAMP-aligned AWS Transfer Family architecture sup...

May 9, 2025Read
Optimize Your Cloud Costs with FinOps Solutions
INSIGHT7 min

Optimize Your Cloud Costs with FinOps Solutions

Cloud spending is shaped by hundreds of small engineering decisions made every week. The FinOps discipline turns those decisions i...

Apr 15, 2024Read
Enhancing AI System Deployment with Ethical Risk Assessments
INSIGHT8 min

Enhancing AI System Deployment with Ethical Risk Assessments

AI systems deployed in regulated sectors need a way to demonstrate they are not just functional but ethically sound. The IEEE Cert...

Feb 27, 2024Read
Achieving 99% Cost Reduction in AWS Data Transfer Expenses
INSIGHT6 min

Achieving 99% Cost Reduction in AWS Data Transfer Expenses

AWS data-transfer charges scale unevenly with architecture decisions, and cross-availability-zone transfers are one of the line it...

Jan 16, 2024Read
Seamless Cloud Migration for the CFPB with AWS
CASE STUDY5 min

Seamless Cloud Migration for the CFPB with AWS

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau modernized core database infrastructure by migrating to AWS RDS — reducing operational bu...

Feb 2, 2022Read
Enhancing Clinical Study Participant Privacy & Security
CASE STUDY5 min

Enhancing Clinical Study Participant Privacy & Security

Leading Research Institution

A leading research institution required a participant-facing platform with rigorous tokenization-based privacy controls. One Dynam...

Sep 29, 2021Read
Enhancing Veterans Affairs through the VA Million Veteran Program
CASE STUDY6 min

Enhancing Veterans Affairs through the VA Million Veteran Program

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

One Dynamic supported the VA Million Veteran Program by building data-collection technology — surveys, appointment systems, e-cons...

Jan 11, 2021Read
We’re SWaM Certified!
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We’re SWaM Certified!

1dynamic, Inc. DBA One Dynamic officially obtained SWaM certification from the Virginia Department of Small Business and Supplier ...

May 27, 2020Read
One Dynamic’s Success with USCIS Drupal Projects
CASE STUDY6 min

One Dynamic’s Success with USCIS Drupal Projects

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

One Dynamic delivered three Drupal-based platforms for USCIS — the public-facing USCIS.gov site (handling 43K concurrent sessions)...

Apr 12, 2020Read
Leveraging Technologies for Clinical Study Management
CASE STUDY5 min

Leveraging Technologies for Clinical Study Management

Confidential Healthcare Organization

A confidential healthcare organization replaced legacy clinical-study management with modern web-based platforms supporting automa...

Oct 29, 2019Read
MyPlate: USDA — Agile Approach to Promoting Healthy Eating
CASE STUDY4 min

MyPlate: USDA — Agile Approach to Promoting Healthy Eating

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

One Dynamic supported the USDA’s MyPlate.gov nutrition-education platform — used by millions of Americans — through SAFe Agile del...

Apr 28, 2019Read