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“Gap of Grief”: Why Your Terraform Code Fails on Day 1
ByR M 12/21/202512/21/2025
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…
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Amazon AWS | Cloud Native | Microsoft Azure | Modern Infrastructure
The Terraform “Wrapper Tax”: Why I Stopped Abstracting Multi-Cloud Modules
ByR M 12/21/202512/21/2025
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….
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Hybrid vs Multi‑Cloud in 2025: What Systems Engineers Actually Need to Know
ByR M 12/20/202512/21/2025
By 2025, the boardroom debate about “moving to the cloud” is largely over. It has been replaced by the far more complex engineering reality of managing the resulting sprawl. The discussion around Hybrid vs Multi-Cloud in 2025 has gained traction as businesses seek optimal solutions for their infrastructure needs. Understanding Hybrid vs Multi-Cloud in 2025…
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The “Lift and Shift” Cost Trap: A Sysadmin’s Guide to FinOps and Avoiding Cloud Sticker Shock
ByR M 12/18/202501/01/2026
Introduction: The “Lift and Shift” Trap You’ve successfully migrated your first workload. The terraform applied cleanly, the latency looks good, and the boss is happy. Then, 30 days later, the first bill arrives. It’s 40% higher than your estimate. Welcome to the “Lift and Shift” trap. For traditional sysadmins, “capacity” was a sunk cost. If…
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Azure Landing Zone vs. AWS Control Tower: The Architect’s Deep Dive
ByR M 12/15/202501/31/2026
Same Destination, Different Vehicles By now, the concept of a “Landing Zone” is well understood in the enterprise. It is the pre-configured, secure, and scalable foundation upon which workloads are deployed. It’s the antidote to the “wild west” of unmanaged cloud accounts and subscriptions. For Solution Engineers and Architects working in multi-cloud environments, simply knowing…
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No One Database Rules Them All: A 2025 Guide to Modern Data Stores
ByR M 12/15/202501/01/2026
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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