DevOps Engineer
376 articles published
A practitioner's comparison of Terraform and CloudFormation on AWS covering state, drift, new-service lag, rollback, and where CDK fits.
A bloated build context slows every build, wrecks your cache, and quietly leaks secrets into images. Here's how to keep it lean.
Three Git commands that all "undo" things, and picking the wrong one on a shared branch is how you ruin a teammate's afternoon. Here's how to keep them straight.
Static keys leak and live forever. Short-lived credentials from STS and Vault expire on their own — here's the token-exchange machinery and the TTL math that make it work.
A million-token window doesn't retire your retrieval stack. Here's when to stuff the prompt, when to retrieve, and when to do both.
Egress is the line item nobody sizes upfront and everyone regrets at month-end. Here's the taxonomy, the surprise bills, and what actually cuts it.
One bundles your whole toolchain, the other lets you build anything from parts. The right pick depends on how much glue you want to own.
Datadog's bill has a way of tripling the quarter you actually start using it. Here are eight alternatives we've run in production and what each one costs you.
A request leaving a laptop somehow lands on a server 20ms away. Here is what actually decides which point of presence answers.
Two failures wear the same face: builds that rebuild everything every time, and builds that hand you a stale image. Both trace back to how layer caching keys work.
A field guide to the FinOps tooling that actually earns its keep in 2026, from native dashboards to CloudZero and Cast AI, sorted by what you spend.
A practitioner's guide to picking between the three frontier LLM APIs based on task, price, latency, and enterprise terms.
