Spot and Preemptible Instances: Cheap Compute With a Catch
Up to ninety per cent off, on the condition that the provider can take the machine back with two minutes of notice.
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MFA on Cloud Accounts: Which Method, and Why It Matters
Not all second factors are equal. The difference between SMS and a security key is the difference between slowing an…
Cloud Disk Types: NVMe, SSD, Network Volumes and Why It Matters
Two servers with the same CPU and RAM can differ by an order of magnitude in database performance.
CI/CD Pipelines: What a Good One Looks Like
A pipeline that takes twenty minutes gets worked around. A pipeline that takes three minutes changes how a team works.
Budgets and Alerts: Finding Out Before the Invoice
Cloud billing is retrospective. Without alerts, the first signal of a runaway cost is an invoice for a month you…
DNS for Cloud Services: The Layer Everything Depends On
DNS sits upstream of all your redundancy. A mistake here takes everything down regardless of how well the rest is…
Right-Sizing: Finding the Gap Between Provisioned and Used
The most reliable cloud saving is not a discount. It is discovering that half your capacity has never been touched.
Cloud Pricing Models: Hourly, Monthly, Per-Request and Per-Gigabyte
The unit a provider bills in shapes the architecture you end up with.
When a VPS Stops Being Enough
A VPS handles more than people expect. The signals that you have outgrown one are specific, and none of them is…
Deploying Without Downtime
Zero-downtime deployment is mostly about two things: having more than one of everything, and making database changes…
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