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Think Like an Architect: The Field Guide to Cloud Egress and Data Gravity
When you’re designing for Day 2 operations, you quickly realize that data isn’t just heavy—it’s expensive to move. I’ve seen countless “cloud-native” projects hit a wall during the scaling phase because the architect assumed egress was a flat overhead. It isn’t. It’s a variable tax that scales with your success. To build like an engineer,…
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“Gap of Grief”: Why Your Terraform Code Fails on Day 1
The “Gap of Grief”: While cloud providers speed ahead with new features, infrastructure-as-code tools often carry a heavy load of legacy support, creating a measurable lag. I’ve been designing cloud infrastructures for over 15 years, and the story is always the same. You see a flashy announcement at re:Invent or Ignite—maybe it’s a new high-performance…
From Sysadmin to Cloud Engineer in 2025: The Definitive Skills Roadmap
Introduction: The Server Room is Evolving, Not Dying If you are a traditional systems administrator, you’ve likely felt the shift. The racking and stacking are decreasing; the API calls are increasing. The narrative that “sysadmins are obsolete” is false, but the reality is that the role is evolving rapidly into Platform and Cloud Engineering. Your…
No One Database Rules Them All: A 2025 Guide to Modern Data Stores
Modern systems are no longer built on a single database. High‑scale, cloud‑native applications combine multiple database types, each optimized for a specific access pattern, latency requirement, or workload. Choosing the right database is now an architectural decision that directly impacts cost, performance, resilience, and developer velocity. Below is a practical, cloud‑focused guide to the most…
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