Practical articles on AI, DevOps, Cloud, Linux, and infrastructure engineering.
A practitioner's checklist for securing AWS, ordered by impact so you fix the things attackers actually exploit first.
Stop stashing long-lived AWS access keys in GitHub secrets and let OIDC hand your workflows short-lived, scoped credentials instead.
Both Pulumi and AWS CDK let you define infrastructure in real programming languages, but they split hard on multi-cloud, state, and engine maturity.
Cloud bills grow quietly until someone asks why. This is the map for cutting spend without cutting reliability: where the money actually goes, the levers that work, and the tools worth paying for.
Static keys leak. The question isn't if but how fast you notice and how clean your response runbook is when the pager goes off.
The bill arrives three weeks late. By then the runaway logging pipeline has already burned $9,000. Here is how we catch spikes in hours, not weeks.
A practitioner's comparison of Terraform and CloudFormation on AWS covering state, drift, new-service lag, rollback, and where CDK fits.
A field-tested checklist for cutting an AWS bill, ordered by return on effort. Start with the free wins, end with the ones that need a meeting.
Spot cuts compute bills by 60-90%, but AWS can take the machine back in two minutes. Here's how we run real production on it without paging anyone.
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 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.
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.
