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 It has been replaced by the far more complex engineering reality of managing the resulting sprawl. This article focuses on the implications of Hybrid vs Multi-Cloud in 2025 for Systems Engineers. For Systems Engineers (SEs), infrastructure architects, and platform teams, the definitions…
The hardest part of moving SQL Server to Azure isn’t the technical migration; it’s the decision on where to land. A glance at the Microsoft documentation reveals a confusing alphabet soup of options: SQL on Azure VM (IaaS), Azure SQL Managed Instance (PaaS), and Azure SQL Database (PaaS), not to mention elastic pools and hyperscale…
Introduction: The “Lift and Shift” Trap You’ve successfully migrated your first workload. The Terraform applied cleanly, the latency is within bounds, and the cutover was silent. Then, 30 days later, the first hyperscaler bill arrives. It is 40% higher than your strict estimate. Welcome to the “Lift and Shift” trap. For traditional sysadmins, hardware capacity…
