What is Virtualization? The Technology Behind the Cloud
By Sailee Shingare | M.S. in Computer Science, Northern Illinois University (NIU) In my last post, I said the cloud is essentially “someone else’s com…
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Most AI Control Planes Have a Single-Region Failure Domain
The cloud spent fifteen years teaching architects to think in availability zones, regional redundancy, and distributed failure domains. AI infrastruct…
Virtualization in Cloud Computing: Definition, Types, and Practical Guide
If you've ever spun up an EC2 instance for a side project, accessed a remote work desktop from your personal laptop, or stored files on Google Drive w…
Mastering Netstat: The Linux Command That Separates Beginners from Real Infrastructure Engineers
In the era of Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, and microservices, many engineers focus on high-level abstractions. But when a production server…
How to Automate Azure Resource Group Creation with a Bash Script
If you are just getting started with Azure CLI and Bash scripting, this post is for you. I will walk you through how I automated the creation of Azure…
Data Gravity in the Cloud: Managing Latency in Global Database Architectures
Data gravity in the cloud is one of those concepts that sounds abstract until you've spent an afternoon debugging why your EU users are seeing 800ms q…
Hacking the Cloud: What Every Engineer Should Know About Cloud Security
Cloud computing has transformed how organizations build, deploy, and scale applications. From startups launching their first products to global enterp…
Autonomous Commitment Management: How to Stop Managing Cloud RIs Manually
Most FinOps teams manage cloud commitments the same way they managed email in 2003: by hand, on a schedule, with whatever information was available at…
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…
What DevOps Implementation Does for Your Business
I've had this conversation more times than I can count: an engineering lead tells me their team is "pretty efficient," then twenty minutes into the ac…
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…
What is VPC? Explained for Beginners
AWS VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) Introduction If you are starting your AWS and Cloud journey, one of the most important concepts you will come across i…
Configure network routing
Introduction: In a secure cloud environment, controlling how traffic flows between resources is just as important as protecting the resources themselv…
EC2 Beginner Guide: Launch Your First AWS Instance
Introduction In my previous IAM article we learnt basics of IAM and how to create Users, Groups and attach Policies. You can refer here: https://dev.t…
Serverless Mental Models: What They Don't Tell You Before You Build
Most serverless tutorials teach you how to deploy a Lambda function. This article teaches you how to think about serverless, so you can make good arch…
DynamoDB Contributor Insights Pricing: What You're Actually Paying For
/$0.50 per rule per month. $0.03 per million events. Enabling Contributor Insights on a single DynamoDB table auto-creates four rules so your floor is…
I Created an Azure User, Gave It Global Admin Access, Revoked It, and Tested Azure IAM — Here’s What I Learned
As part of my Cloud Engineering and DevOps learning journey, I recently decided to go beyond theory and start practicing Identity and Access Managemen…
Cloud Unit Economics: The Metrics DevOps and FinOps Teams Actually Need
Cloud costs rarely grow linearly with product usage. A company might double its users and see cloud costs triple. An API platform might increase reque…
AI Agents in the Enterprise: Why Less Can Be More
The artificial intelligence revolution has arrived in corporate boardrooms, and it is bringing a surprising problem: too many AI agents. While enterpr…
AI Agents in the Enterprise: Why More Is Not Always Better
AI Agents in the Enterprise: Why More Is Not Always Better The artificial intelligence revolution has arrived in corporate boardrooms, and it is bring…
Day 3 — AWS CloudTrail Setup
After securing the root account, enabling MFA, and configuring IAM access, the next critical step is visibility. It is important to know: who changed …
Deploying Metabase on AWS ECS (Fargate) with PostgreSQL (RDS)
At some point in your cloud journey, you stop just deploying applications and start thinking about data, persistence, and real-world architecture. Bec…
Building a Multi-Container Flask, PostgreSQL, and NGINX Stack Using Docker Compose — Including Every Failure Encountered.
A production-style application deployment rarely succeeds on the first attempt. This project implemented a containerized multi-service architecture us…
Provision of storage for the public website.
Introduction In today’s cloud-driven environment, organizations require storage solutions that are secure, scalable, and highly available to ensure un…
5 AWS Migration Strategies
In 2021, a large-scale migration of roughly 340 applications from a private data center to AWS was executed under an aggressive timeline. The original…
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: The Complete Guide
For a long time, when people talked about cloud, the conversation was mostly about AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Lately, OCI has been quietly entering…
Cloud Engineer Journey #1 - Starting My Cloud & DevOps Learning Journey
Recently, I started my journey as an Associate Cloud Engineer, and I wanted to create something that helps me learn consistently while also helping ot…
Provision of storage for IT department testing and training
Introduction In modern IT environments, the ability to efficiently manage, test, and secure data infrastructure is essential for supporting innovation…
Multi-Paxos vs Strong-Sync Primary/Replica vs Raft: Which HA Model Actually Gets You RPO=0 in 2026?
An architect’s breakdown: quorum DR, split-brain, leases — and why “wait for the standby” isn’t the same as “survive minority failures.” What Is Paxos…
Beyond the Buzzword: The Technical Reality of On-Premises, Private Cloud, and Public Cloud
When we started learning about the Cloud, I believe most of us had learned about Public and Private Cloud. How Cloud differs from the On-Prem. Those w…