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Practical guides on cloud, DevOps and platform engineering from engineers who run production systems.

Cloud Security

AWS Continuum Pricing for a Startup Pilot and When to Wait

AWS’s $1,200 monthly example is a starting assumption, not your pilot budget. Add reviewer time, scanner overlap and UK source-code handling to decide whether Continuum is worth testing—or waiting for.

3 November 2026 · 8 min read
Kubernetes & Containers

Kueue Job Pending? Prove You Need More GPUs Before Buying

Idle GPUs do not prove that your next training job can start. Follow a CLI-first decision tree from Workload conditions to a safe fix, then make a capacity decision backed by evidence.

2 November 2026 · 10 min read
Reliability & Monitoring

Karpenter Spot On Demand Fallback Your Workload Can Survive

A mixed-capacity NodePool is permission to spend, not proof of recovery. Protect your On-Demand baseline, interrupt a real Spot worker and measure the recovery time and fallback bill your workload can tolerate.

1 November 2026 · 14 min read
Cloud Security

How to secure AI agent access to AWS without permanent keys

Temporary credentials are not a shutdown procedure. Choose between a dedicated role, per-task STS sessions and a credential broker, then test what happens to credentials your agent already holds.

31 October 2026 · 10 min read
Kubernetes & Containers

AKS nginx ingress migration before support ends

Microsoft’s managed NGINX support bridge ends in November 2026. Assess three replacement paths against your annotations, budget the parallel run and prove authentication, TLS and rollback before moving traffic.

30 October 2026 · 10 min read
Reliability & Monitoring

Kubernetes zero downtime deployment before canary tooling

A successful rollout is not proof that customers received successful responses. Diagnose the three deployment races, fix the right one and test fresh and keep-alive connections before adding canary tooling.

26 October 2026 · 14 min read
Kubernetes & Containers

Should I enable swap on Kubernetes in production?

More sandboxes per node does not automatically mean a smaller cloud bill. Use this production decision framework to identify swap candidates, protect latency-sensitive services and prove savings per completed job.

25 October 2026 · 9 min read
DevOps & CI/CD

Terraform import existing resources into modules safely

Importing a resource into a module is not the same as putting its import block inside that module. Follow a safety-first AWS adoption workflow that separates taking ownership from changing production.

24 October 2026 · 11 min read
Kubernetes & Containers

Kubernetes cgroup v2 migration go or no-go

A healthy control plane does not prove your next node image will boot or your applications will respect their memory limits. Use six evidence gates to decide whether to upgrade, replace nodes first or postpone the change.

23 October 2026 · 9 min read
Kubernetes & Containers

n8n on AWS EKS Without the Production Surprises

EKS can be a sensible home for business-critical n8n workflows, especially on an established platform. Start with deployment economics, then work through licence-aware architecture, pinned configuration and a rehearsed migration.

22 October 2026 · 10 min read
Cost Optimisation

How to reduce LLM API costs without buying more failures

A cheaper API call is not necessarily a cheaper outcome. Use a portable measurement harness, dated Claude prices and controlled experiments to find which agent optimisations survive a proper quality check.

21 October 2026 · 10 min read
Cloud Architecture

ECS Gateway vs ALB Which Ingress Should You Own?

The useful comparison is not a gateway against a load balancer. It is gateway-managed ingress against the ALBs your platform team already operates—and whether changing ownership earns its migration cost.

20 October 2026 · 8 min read
Cloud Architecture

Lambda Web Functions vs API Gateway Should You Migrate?

Removing API Gateway changes more than your request bill. Decide whether to keep, pilot or migrate using regional requirements, authentication, concurrency safety and an executable acceptance checklist.

20 October 2026 · 13 min read
Cloud & DevOps

AI Agents in DevOps — How Intelligent Automation Is Reshaping Cloud Operations in 2026

Cloud infrastructure used to demand constant human attention. Engineers monitored dashboards, responded to alerts, and executed runbooks manually — a cycle that scaled poorly as systems grew. Today, A…

1 April 2026
Cloud & DevOps

Understanding Cloud Risks

Cloud technology offers immense benefits but can be fraught with challenges. Recognizing early warning signs that you need a dedicated support team can save you from catastrophic cloud failures. This …

3 May 2025
Cloud & DevOps

The Evolution of Cloud Computing

2 May 2025
Cloud & DevOps

Understanding the Need for Cloud Consulting

1 May 2025
Cloud & DevOps

Understanding Multi-Cloud Architecture

30 April 2025
Cloud & DevOps

Lack of Visibility into Costs

29 April 2025
Cloud & DevOps

Understanding Cloud Migration

28 April 2025
Cloud & DevOps

Understanding Cloud Cost Dynamics

27 April 2025
Cloud & DevOps

Introduction to Node.js and Python

18 March 2025
Cloud & DevOps

Understanding Node.js and AWS Lambda

Start with CloudWatch for your monitoring needs. It's deeply integrated with AWS services and straightforward to set up. You can track metrics such as duration, invocations, and error rates. Setting u…

17 March 2025
Cloud & DevOps

Understanding Docker and Its Benefits

Before diving into the installation process, ensure your environment is ready. Each operating system has its quirks. For smooth sailing, here are the prerequisites.

16 March 2025
Cloud & DevOps

Understanding Kubernetes Pod Basics

15 March 2025