Planning a Cloud Migration That Does Not Overrun
Migrations overrun because the inventory was incomplete, not because the technology was hard. Start with the list.
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Cloud Terminology, Translated
The same concept has three names depending on the provider. Here is the translation table, plus the terms that…
What an AWS Account Actually Gives You
AWS is less one product than a catalogue of a couple of hundred.
Logs, Metrics and Traces: Which One Answers Which Question
Three kinds of telemetry, three kinds of question. Collecting all three badly is worse than collecting two well.
Managed Services vs Self-Hosting: The Honest Cost Comparison
A managed database costs three times the server it runs on. Whether that is expensive depends on what your time is…
Load Balancing Basics for Cloud Servers
A load balancer distributes traffic. More usefully, it removes broken servers from rotation before your users find…
Uptime, Availability Zones and What Redundancy Really Costs
Every extra nine costs more than the last. Deciding how many you need is a business decision that engineering keeps…
Database Migration Strategies
The database is the hardest part of any migration, because it is the only part where a mistake loses something you…
Vector Search: What It Is and What It Costs to Run
Vector search finds things by meaning rather than by keyword. The infrastructure question is where the index lives…
A Backup Strategy That Survives a Bad Day
Snapshots in the same account protect against the failures that rarely happen and not the ones that do.
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