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Cloud Is Not a Place: What You Are Actually Buying
Cloud hosting is a billing and provisioning model, not a location. Understanding that clarifies most architecture decisions.
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Horizontal or Vertical Scaling: Which Problem Do You Have?
Adding a bigger server and adding more servers solve different problems. Choosing wrongly is expensive.
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Reading Your Cloud Bill: Where the Money Actually Goes
Compute is rarely the surprise. Egress, storage tiers and forgotten resources are.
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Multi-Region Architecture: Worth It, or Premature?
Running in several regions is the standard answer to availability and usually the wrong first step.
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Serverless for Small Applications: A Balanced View
Functions-as-a-service is excellent for some workloads and a poor fit for others.