Cloud Computing Guides

cloud

Cloud computing delivers compute, storage, and services on demand over the internet, billed by usage. These articles cover architecture and operations across providers — designing for reliability and cost, choosing between managed and self-hosted options, and running workloads securely — without vendor hype.

You'll find practical guidance on infrastructure-as-code, containers and orchestration, observability, and cost optimization that applies whether you're on AWS, GCP, Azure, or a hybrid setup.

Related:AWS Terraform DevOps

A slow database made a backend service look dead, and the health check that was supposed to protect it killed it faster. The lesson has nothing to do with AI.

••2 weeks ago

Azure OpenAI's Sweden Central Outage: A Health Check Postmortem

A slow database made a backend service look dead, and the health check that was supposed to protect it killed it faster. The lesson has nothing to do with AI.

Kiril Urbonas·23

Read article

Google's benchmarks show a 70B model restoring in 37 seconds instead of minutes. The catch is a hash and a hardware match that silently refuses to restore when either is off.

••2 weeks ago

GKE Pod Snapshots: Cold Starts Drop 89%, If Your Nodes Match

Google's benchmarks show a 70B model restoring in 37 seconds instead of minutes. The catch is a hash and a hardware match that silently refuses to restore when either is off.

Kiril Urbonas·15

Read article

AWS says it cannot restore data held only in Bahrain (me-south-1) or in one UAE zone. Multi-AZ gave availability, not recovery, and only cross-region copies survived.

••0 months ago

AWS Lost a Region for Good: Multi-AZ Is Not Disaster Recovery

AWS says it cannot restore data held only in Bahrain (me-south-1) or in one UAE zone. Multi-AZ gave availability, not recovery, and only cross-region copies survived.

Kiril Urbonas·21

Read article

Cutting a log bill is not a procurement exercise. It is four decisions about what you drop at the agent, what you index, how long you keep it, and what you never send at all.

••last month

The Cheapest Way to Centralize Logs at Scale

Cutting a log bill is not a procurement exercise. It is four decisions about what you drop at the agent, what you index, how long you keep it, and what you never send at all.

Kiril Urbonas·10

Read article

EC2 Capacity Blocks went up around 15% in January and again in July. The increases track the memory shortage, and they change which GPU cloud is actually cheapest for your workload.

••last month

AWS Raised GPU Prices Twice in 2026: What to Do About It

EC2 Capacity Blocks went up around 15% in January and again in July. The increases track the memory shortage, and they change which GPU cloud is actually cheapest for your workload.

Kiril Urbonas·36

Read article

Memory makers moved their wafers to HBM for AI accelerators, and DDR5 spot prices tripled. Here is how that reaches your instance bill and what actually reduces the exposure.

••last month

The RAM Shortage Is Now a Line Item on Your Cloud Bill

Memory makers moved their wafers to HBM for AI accelerators, and DDR5 spot prices tripled. Here is how that reaches your instance bill and what actually reduces the exposure.

Kiril Urbonas·23

Read article

A practitioner's guide to choosing between serverless and provisioned databases based on cost, latency, connections, and load shape.

••2 months ago

Serverless Databases vs Traditional: When to Use Each

A practitioner's guide to choosing between serverless and provisioned databases based on cost, latency, connections, and load shape.

Kiril Urbonas·39

Read article

A practitioner's look at Cloudflare D1, the serverless SQLite database built for Workers, covering setup, read replication, limits, and fit.

••2 months ago

Cloudflare D1: The Edge SQLite Database Guide (2026)

A practitioner's look at Cloudflare D1, the serverless SQLite database built for Workers, covering setup, read replication, limits, and fit.

Kiril Urbonas·56

Read article

A practitioner comparison of Neon's serverless Postgres against PlanetScale's Vitess-backed MySQL to help you pick the right database.

••2 months ago

Neon vs PlanetScale: Serverless SQL Compared (2026)

A practitioner comparison of Neon's serverless Postgres against PlanetScale's Vitess-backed MySQL to help you pick the right database.

Kiril Urbonas·27

Read article

A practical look at when SQLite is a genuinely good production database, where it breaks, and the tooling that makes it viable.

••2 months ago

Can You Run SQLite in Production? (2026)

A practical look at when SQLite is a genuinely good production database, where it breaks, and the tooling that makes it viable.

Kiril Urbonas·48

Read article

A practitioner comparison of the leading serverless databases by use case, cold-start behavior, branching, pricing model, and lock-in.

••2 months ago

Best Serverless Databases in 2026 (Compared)

A practitioner comparison of the leading serverless databases by use case, cold-start behavior, branching, pricing model, and lock-in.

Kiril Urbonas·157

Read article

A hands-on walkthrough of Turso and libSQL, from CLI setup to embedded replicas that put SQLite reads next to your users.

••2 months ago

Turso Tutorial: Getting Started with Edge SQLite (libSQL)

A hands-on walkthrough of Turso and libSQL, from CLI setup to embedded replicas that put SQLite reads next to your users.

Kiril Urbonas·44

Read article

Frequently asked questions

What is cloud computing?

Cloud computing is renting computing resources — servers, storage, databases, and higher-level services — from a provider over the internet, paying only for what you use instead of buying and maintaining your own hardware.

What is the difference between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS?

IaaS gives you raw infrastructure (VMs, networks) to manage yourself; PaaS provides a managed platform to deploy code without managing servers; SaaS is fully managed software you just use. Each trades control for less operational overhead.