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What is a CDN? How CloudFront and Cloudflare Work Under the Hood
Cloud

What is a CDN? How CloudFront and Cloudflare Work Under the Hood

Understand how CDNs work at the edge: PoPs, Anycast vs GeoDNS, cache behaviors, Origin Shield, invalidation strategies, and a detailed CloudFront vs Cloudflare comparison with pricing.

11 min read·
Understanding Availability Zones and Regions: A Practical Guide
Cloud

Understanding Availability Zones and Regions: A Practical Guide

Learn what Availability Zones and regions are physically, how to design for AZ redundancy, which services are zone-scoped vs region-scoped, and what SLA documents actually guarantee.

8 min read·
Cloud Cost Optimization: Practical Strategies That Actually Work
Cloud

Cloud Cost Optimization: Practical Strategies That Actually Work

Reduce your cloud bill with actionable strategies: rightsizing, Savings Plans, S3 lifecycle policies, data transfer optimization, and cost management tools that deliver real results.

10 min read·
Multi-Region Architecture: Most Apps Don't Need It (2026)
Cloud

Multi-Region Architecture: Most Apps Don't Need It (2026)

Learn when multi-region architecture is worth the complexity and how to implement active-passive and active-active patterns with database replication, global routing, and failover testing.

10 min read·
What is Infrastructure as Code? Terraform vs Pulumi vs CDK Compared
Cloud

What is Infrastructure as Code? Terraform vs Pulumi vs CDK Compared

Compare Terraform, AWS CDK, and Pulumi for Infrastructure as Code. Covers languages, state management, multi-cloud support, pricing, and practical guidance on choosing the right tool.

10 min read·
Spot Instances Explained: How to Save 90% on AWS Compute
Cloud

Spot Instances Explained: How to Save 90% on AWS Compute

Learn how AWS Spot Instances work, when to use them, and how to architect for interruption. Covers pricing, Spot Fleet, mixed ASGs, checkpointing, and real cost comparisons.

8 min read·
IAM Roles vs Policies: AWS Permissions Without the Headache
Cloud

IAM Roles vs Policies: AWS Permissions Without the Headache

Understand AWS IAM roles, policies, users, and groups. Learn how the policy evaluation engine works, when to use identity-based vs resource-based policies, and how to implement least privilege.

12 min read·
VPCs Explained: How Virtual Private Clouds Actually Work
Cloud

VPCs Explained: How Virtual Private Clouds Actually Work

A practitioner's guide to Virtual Private Clouds covering subnets, route tables, gateways, security groups, NACLs, and VPC peering across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

11 min read·
Event-Driven Architecture: When It Makes Sense and When It Doesn't
Architecture

Event-Driven Architecture: When It Makes Sense and When It Doesn't

Event-driven architecture decouples services through message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, and SNS/SQS. Learn when EDA is the right choice, how to implement it, and the patterns that make it work in production.

13 min read·

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