Cloud,
minus the noise.
Field notes, deep-dives, and hard lessons from engineers who run cloud infrastructure for a living. No fluff — just what works.
The interview question that trips up 80% of cloud candidates
The question we ask every cloud engineer we interview has no correct answer. What it reveals is how someone thinks under constraint, and most candidates never get that far.
We managed CI/CD for 40 companies. Here's what the good ones share.
The tool doesn't predict pipeline incidents. Three habits do: reviewed pipeline code, one path to production, and a rollback that has actually been timed.
Multi-cloud: when it makes sense and when it's just expensive complexity
Three cases where multi-cloud genuinely pays off, the hidden costs that can eat 40% of engineering time, and the questions to ask before you commit.
Docker in production: mistakes we made so you don't have to
The gap between “works on my machine” and “runs unattended in production” is mostly four mistakes. We made all of them; here is what each costs and the fix.
How to pass your first AWS certification (without memorising 500 flashcards)
Most SAA study advice is watch a course, drill practice exams, memorise tables. It works. We’d still do it differently, and the difference shows up on the job.
Site reliability engineering without an SRE team
You don’t need Google’s headcount to run reliability like Google. Here is the stripped-down version we install in small engineering teams.
Reserved Instances vs Savings Plans: the honest comparison
RIs and Savings Plans look alike on the pricing page and behave very differently a year in. Which to buy, when, and why we buy in tranches.
The AWS cost audit playbook: find the fat in 30 minutes
Cost Explorer, Compute Optimizer, an idle-resource sweep, RI coverage. The 30-minute audit we run on every new AWS account, and why it should be monthly.
Kubernetes for teams who don't have a platform team
Do you need Kubernetes at all? If so: managed control plane, GitOps from day one, buy the plumbing, build only what reflects your architecture.
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