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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…
The Terraform “Wrapper Tax”: Why I Stopped Abstracting Multi-Cloud Modules
The dream of “Write Once, Run Anywhere” Infrastructure as Code has mutated into a nightmare of technical debt. It’s time to embrace verbose, native code. Around 2018, many of us in the DevOps space shared a collective dream. We believed that with enough clever Terraform coding, we could abstract away the underlying cloud provider completely….
Ransomware‑Ready Backup Strategy for 2025: What Every Engineer Must Know
In 2020, the advice was “have good backups.” In 2025, that advice is dangerously incomplete. Today, backup infrastructure is not the remediation; it is the primary target. Modern ransomware cartels know that if they encrypt your production data, you will restore. But if they delete your backups first, you will pay. Attackers now spend weeks…
Breaking the HCI Silo: Nutanix Integration with Dell PowerFlex & Pure Storage
For over a decade, Nutanix’s mantra was “HCI or Death.” The philosophy was simple: storage and compute must live together in the same box to guarantee performance and simplicity. However, the post-Broadcom VMware landscape has forced a market evolution. Enterprises want the freedom to keep their expensive Storage Area Networks (SANs) while migrating away from…
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