Practical articles on AI, DevOps, Cloud, Linux, and infrastructure engineering.
How a small team moved from single-region risk to a simple active/passive multi-region setup without doubling complexity.
A real story of removing console-only changes, adding drift detection, and getting Terraform back in charge.
A DR runbook nobody reads is worse than no runbook. The shape that finally got ours executed correctly under pressure.
We expanded from one Kubernetes cluster to four across two regions. The traffic-routing layer was the hardest piece. Here's what we tried, what worked, and what we'd do again.
Compare Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible for Infrastructure as Code. Learn when to use each tool and how they complement each other in modern DevOps workflows.
Set up comprehensive Linux system monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana. Monitor CPU, memory, disk, network, and application metrics with beautiful dashboards.
Discover proven strategies to reduce AWS costs by up to 50%. Learn about Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, right-sizing, and automated cost management.
How we organize Terraform state across 12 AWS accounts and 40+ services. Backends, locking, partitioning, and the migration we got wrong twice.
A different angle on AWS cost work: the operational discipline that prevents costs from creeping back up after the initial cleanup.
We use Ansible for configuration management on hosts where Terraform stops. The workflow that keeps it tractable and what we wish we'd known about idempotency.
