Cloud
Vendor-neutral, cost-conscious answers on running in the cloud.
What Cloud covers
This category covers running software in the cloud — infrastructure as code, deployments, cost control and the choice between containers and serverless.
What this category covers
- Containers vs. serverless
- Managed vs. self-hosted
- Controlling cloud costs (FinOps)
- Infrastructure as code
Lessons learned in this field.
Mistakes and what they taught us — anonymized, without drama. The mistake is the teacher.
A Migration Is a Trust Problem
An Engineering Story: a large infrastructure migration spanning multiple servers, databases, backups and a change of provider. The real difficulty wasn't technical, but the certainty of having forgotten nothing. On migrations as trust problems — and how to establish trust instead of hoping for it.
The Best Architecture Removes Components
An Engineering Story: hundreds of intermediary API servers were replaced by a proxy architecture. The infrastructure became simpler, not more powerful. Why the best architecture often removes components instead of adding new ones.
New articles in this category are published on an ongoing basis. You can already find the core terms in the glossary.
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