We Cut $120,000 from Our Cloud Bill Without Sacrificing Reliability
We were running a cloud-hosted platform on AWS EKS , with EC2 worker nodes managed by us, MongoDB Atlas for NoSQL workloads, AWS RDS for relational da…
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AI Placement Decisions Are Architecture, Not Optimization
AI placement latency is not the problem most teams think they are managing. The default framing treats it as an optimization variable — pick the cheap…
"The AI did it" won't save you when EU regulators come knocking
The EU Cyber Resilience Act has been on everyone's "we'll deal with it later" list since it entered into force in December 2024. Later is arriving: vu…
How to Secure Azure Storage Using Managed Identities and RBAC
Introduction Modern cloud applications require secure ways to access storage resources without exposing sensitive credentials or access keys. In Micro…
Why I built cloudfit
A few months back I was sitting in front of GCP Compute Engine pricing for the hundredth time, trying to pick a machine type for a Nextflow process th…
What Is the Difference Between Cloud Cost Optimization and Cloud Cost Management?
Cloud cost management and cloud cost optimization are often used interchangeably but they solve different problems. Understanding the distinction matt…
How Compute Savings Plans Work (Step-by-Step)
Most people understand that a Compute Savings Plan saves money on cloud compute. Far fewer understand the precise mechanism which matters, because get…
How a 2.8ms Network Delta Nearly Broke Our 7 TB Oracle to Amazon RDS Migration
Cross-posted from my infrastructure postmortem series at pavanbhatia.hashnode.dev . At 1:40 AM on Sunday, our 7 TB Oracle-to-Amazon RDS migration was …
Cold Starts in Serverless
The Great Serverless Pause: Battling the "Cold Start" Beast Ever ordered a pizza and it took ages to arrive, leaving you ravenous and staring at an em…
FFmpeg as a Service: Process Video with One API Call
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You've got FFmpeg running locally. The transcoding works. Then someone asks you to deploy it, and you realize…
How I Built an AWS Cloud Security Project as a University Student
When most CS students are building simple CRUD apps for their thesis, I decided to go a different route. I built SecurePath — an automated AWS cloud s…
Most Teams Don't Move to Amazon RDS for Performance
You’ve decided to move your applications from on-premises to AWS and are looking at the cloud services that best meet your needs. When moving an appli…
5090 vs 4090 for AI Workloads: Buy, Rent, or Validate in the Cloud?
Originally published at https://blog.runc.ai/5090-vs-4090/ . Key Takeaways RTX 5090 is the stronger flagship on paper, especially when your AI workflo…
Which Cloud Is Best for Containers & Microservices? Why IBM Cloud Stands Out
If you are building modern, cloud-native applications, you already know that containers and microservices are the gold standard. They give your archit…
Why Block Handed Goose to the Linux Foundation: Agentic AI Goes Open
Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, transferred its open-source agentic AI framework Goose to the Linux Foundation. The move follows a fami…
NVIDIA CUTLASS: High-Performance CUDA Templates for AI Linear Algebra
If you've trained a transformer in the last three years, your GPU spent most of its wall-clock time inside a matrix multiplication. The kernels doing …
Docker Desktop Alternatives: OrbStack vs Colima vs Rancher Desktop
Docker Desktop changed its licensing in August 2021, and the ripple effects are still spreading. Large organizations — roughly anyone above 250 employ…
Mastering Azure Entra ID: A Hands-On Guide to User Management and Privileged Roles
Cloud identity management sits at the center of modern IT operations. Whether you are managing a startup environment or a large enterprise infrastruct…
Developers keep failing AWS SAA-C03 for the same reason (and it's not lack of AWS knowledge)
I've looked at a lot of SAA-C03 failure patterns. The ones that show up again and again aren't from people who don't know AWS. They're from people who…
When you bring your data home, who is going to keep an eye on it?
Cloud providers have always sold convenience. Compute on demand, storage that scales, and somewhere in the fine print, the implied promise that someon…
AWS vs Azure vs GCP: A Real Cloud Pricing Comparison
Choosing between AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud isn't just about picking the cheapest hourly rate. All three providers offer scalable compute, storage, …
Building a Printable Library with Next.js and Cloudflare: Practical Notes
I have been working on Funboxie , a small library of printable coloring pages, worksheets, templates, and kids' activities. It sounds like a simple co…
☁️ GKE private cluster setup — common mistakes and how to avoid them
Private clusters are not inherently valuable — they’re only effective when used to reduce attack surface. For teams running production workloads in Go…
Inference Is Becoming the New Steady-State Cost Center
Training was a bounded investment event. Inference is an unbounded operational residency problem. That distinction is the one most AI cost conversatio…
Deploy a Node.js App to STACKIT Kubernetes Engine With Managed Redis & PostgreSQL
In this post, I'll walk you through how I deployed a URL shortener app, with a managed PostgreSQL database, a managed Redis cache, and a full Kubernet…
☁️ Importing existing S3 buckets into Terraform state made easy with terraform import existing s3 bucket
❓ Can you terraform import existing s3 bucket without rebuilding it? Yes — an existing AWS S3 bucket can be brought under Terraform management without…
Let's talk a bit about Azure Architecture and Identity Access Management
If you read my previous post, you might remember Richard Inc., our beloved (though make-believe) Nigerian food delivery startup that recently made it …
Getting Started with AWS — A Beginner Friendly Introduction
If you are starting your Cloud or DevOps journey , then one name you’ll hear everywhere is AWS . When I first heard about AWS , I was confused . Peopl…
Laravel Google Drive Filesystem: Unlimited Cloud Storage with Familiar Syntax
The Storage Dilemma: Unlocking Unlimited Cloud Power in Laravel with Google Drive As seasoned developers, we've all been there. You're building a fant…
WebAssembly in 2026: The Quiet Revolution That Finally Delivered
WebAssembly in 2026: The Quiet Revolution That Finally Delivered WebAssembly quietly became production-ready in 2025-2026. The browser wars settled, t…