Thoughts, tutorials, and lessons learned from 20+ years in cloud architecture and enterprise technology.
We thought our architecture was solid. A Well-Architected Review revealed 47 high-priority findings. Here's what we learned and how we fixed it.
After reviewing pipelines at dozens of organizations, I see the same mistakes repeatedly. Here are the anti-patterns that kill velocity and how to fix them.
After building multiple production AI applications on Bedrock, here are the patterns that work, the pitfalls to avoid, and why I chose Bedrock over alternatives.
The Kubernetes-vs-ECS debate misses the point. Here's a framework for choosing container orchestration based on actual requirements, not popularity.
Zero Trust has become a marketing term everyone uses but few understand. Here's what it actually means and how to implement it in AWS without boiling the ocean.
Everyone's talking about AI transforming DevOps. I've actually built and deployed AI-powered automation. Here's what works, what doesn't, and what's coming.
Cloud cost optimization isn't about finding cheaper instance types. It's about fundamentally rethinking how you use resources. Here's our playbook.
Our deployment velocity was stuck. Releases required coordination meetings, manual approvals, and prayers. GitOps transformed our entire culture—not just our tooling.
Terraform is easy to start, hard to scale, and painful to fix once it goes wrong. Here's what I wish I knew before managing infrastructure across hundreds of accounts.
The gap between a Jupyter notebook and a production ML system is enormous. Here's how to bridge it without rebuilding everything from scratch.
Running Kubernetes locally is easy. Running it in production without getting paged at 3 AM requires understanding things no tutorial covers.
After migrating dozens of enterprise applications to serverless, I've learned that the real benefits go far beyond cost savings. Here's what actually matters.
