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Career

The interview question that trips up 80% of cloud candidates

It's not about memorising services. It's about a specific kind of thinking that separates engineers who can architect fr...

Operations

We managed CI/CD for 40 companies. Here's what the good ones share.

Across forty engagements there were patterns. The teams who never called us at 3am all did the same three things in thei...

Cloud Strategy

Multi-cloud: when it makes sense and when it's just expensive complexity

Multi-cloud is often sold as resilience. In practice it's often sold to engineers by vendors and bought by procurement....

DevOps

Docker in production: mistakes we made so you don't have to

Running containers in development is easy. Running them reliably in production is a different discipline. These are the...

Career

How to pass your first AWS certification (without memorising 500 flashcards)

AWS certifications are valuable signals. But most study guides optimise for passing the exam, not for understanding the...

Operations

Site reliability engineering without an SRE team

SRE principles are sound regardless of team size. Here's how to apply error budgets, SLOs, and blameless postmortems at...

AWS

Reserved Instances vs Savings Plans: the honest comparison

AWS has two mechanisms for committing to spend in exchange for discounts. Most teams choose one without fully understand...

AWS

The AWS cost audit playbook: find the fat in 30 minutes

Most AWS accounts have 15–25% of spend sitting in waste. Here's the exact sequence we use on every new client engagement...

DevOps

Kubernetes for teams who don't have a platform team

Most K8s content assumes you have a dedicated platform engineering team. Most companies don't. Here's how to run Kuberne...

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