cloud-computing

A while back, I used Nginx reverse proxy caching for static files, and found that after deployment, clients were still pulling old files. Later, I used a pretty crude but effective workaround: add a custom query fingerprint to the asset path and change it on every build. I added a line in the CI step to generate a fingerprint, and used this value directly: BUILD_FINGERPRINT=nJ4KUcQ7r621TfaZ3QROay…

Quick take Savings Plans win on flexibility. Reserved Instances still win on raw discount for narrow, well-predicted workloads. The break-even is not a number, it is a question about your roadmap. If you only have two minutes: 3-year No-Upfront Compute SP is the safe default for compute-heavy accounts in 2026. Standard EC2 RIs beat SPs by 1 to 4 percentage points on commitment discount, but lock …

Cloud technologies have been one of my biggest professional passions for many years, and AWS has played a significant role in that journey. Through continuous learning, hands-on experience, and the pursuit of AWS certifications, I gained knowledge that helped me make better technical, architectural, and business decisions across a wide range of projects. Over time, I expanded my expertise across …

One of the first cloud concepts many people encounter while learning AWS is EC2 . The name sounds technical. The documentation is extensive. And the number of configuration options can make it feel like something fundamentally different from a regular computer. But while trying to understand cloud computing, I found myself repeatedly coming back to a simple thought: At the end of the day, an EC2 …

A serverless AWS pipeline that auto-monitors every CloudWatch log group, scans for leaked credentials in real-time, sends rate-limited alerts, and ships with a triage dashboard — zero config after deploy. Every production system I've operated has had the same recurring incident: a developer accidentally logs a password, an API key ends up in CloudWatch, a database connection string appears in a d…

IBM Consulting and Google Cloud will combine IBM Consulting Advantage with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as organizations look to move AI systems beyond pilot projects IBM and Google Cloud have launched a new global practice focused on enterprise AI, hybrid cloud modernization, and Gemini-based agent deployments IBM and Google Cloud have launched a new global Google Cloud Practice to help ente…

If you run vLLM, Triton, or any other inference server on Kubernetes, you have probably noticed that the HPA cannot see the GPU. Autoscaling decisions are driven by CPU and memory, while the resource that actually determines inference capacity remains invisible. A CNCF blog post published in May 2026 describes how to fix this by building a KEDA external scaler. The problem with default autoscalin…

If you run Aviatrix on Azure, there is a slow-moving infrastructure change happening underneath your gateways right now that is worth paying attention to. Microsoft started rolling out a new generation of network hardware on May 26, 2026, called MANA (Microsoft Azure Network Adapter). For most Azure workloads, the change is invisible. For network virtual appliances (NVAs) like Aviatrix gateways, …

Hi everyone, As a Full-Stack and Cloud engineer, I’m used to automating everything I can. Whether I'm managing my 28+ container Kubernetes homelab on Proxmox or writing deployment scripts, I absolutely hate doing the same manual task twice. But a few months ago, when I was hunting for a new role, I found myself doing exactly that: manually tweaking my resume for every single job, copy-pasting int…

After spending two weeks debugging issues that only showed up in production — a sitemap _redirects rule that was blocking my own sitemap-index.xml and a Bluesky image upload race against Cloudflare Pages deploy lag — I added three post-deploy checks to my workflow. They're fast and specific to the failure modes I've actually hit, not a full end-to-end test suite. Three sites (aiappdex.com, findin…

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we break down the news from Microsoft Build from Project Solara and the Scout agentic assistant to Microsoft's push to rely less on OpenAI and Anthropic, and the mounting pressure on GitHub. Read More

Running a Crypto Trading Bot on a $5 VPS: The Complete 2026 Guide I spent $47.99 on cloud hosting last year. Then I discovered I could run my entire crypto trading operation on a VPS that costs less than my daily coffee. Here's exactly how I did it — and why you should too. The Problem with Cloud Hosting When I first built my trading bot, I hosted it on AWS. Fine for prototyping. Terrible for a s…

The main concept is straightforward: embed text, store the vector, and query it later. The time-consuming part was everything else. I created a memory layer that maintains context across AI tools using Cloudflare Workers, D1, Vectorize, and Workers AI. All this operates on the free tier. Here’s what I didn’t realize at first. Two stores, kept strictly separate D1 stores structured entry data, inc…

Security Groups vs NACLs Explained for Beginners In the previous articles, we learned about: VPC Subnets Internet Gateway Route Tables These components help AWS resources communicate with each other and with the internet. But there is still one important question: Even if a server is reachable, should everyone be allowed to access it? The answer is No . We need security controls that decide: Who …

I made a thing... I wanted to try out some of the cool stuff that came out of Microsoft Build 2026. Azure Linux "Desktop" is a small Windows app that boots a full Linux desktop in a window. It opens, starts an embedded Linux container, and a few seconds later you are looking at a themed XFCE desktop running on Azure Linux 4.0, with working audio, GPU acceleration, copy and paste, and a display th…

Last weekend I built a thing. A store selling digital products for creators. A dark-themed Flask app hooked up to Stripe, running on a $4 DigitalOcean VPS behind Cloudflare. What I'm selling: 50 Dark Aesthetic 4K Wallpapers — $12 15 Social Media Templates — $15 Notion Life OS Dashboard — $25 100 Midjourney Architecture Prompts — $19 50 Dark Stickers Pack — $9 10 Python Automation Scripts — $29 Co…

Cloud gaming on macOS has improved a lot over the last few years, but I kept running into the same issues: random ping spikes, micro-stutters, Bluetooth latency, and network interruptions caused by background system services. Instead of tweaking settings manually every time I launched a gaming session, I decided to build a small native macOS utility to automate the process. The result is CloudBoo…

OpenAI putting Codex and frontier models on AWS is easy to read as a distribution story. One more cloud. One more enterprise channel. One more place where procurement can buy the shiny thing without a special exception. That reading is not wrong, exactly. It is just too small. The interesting part is not that Codex can now run closer to AWS customers. The interesting part is that a coding agent i…

The companies announced the deal on Friday, just one week ahead of SpaceX's historic IPO.

Our fitness kit's iOS build used to take 14 minutes on CI. After upgrading to Expo SDK 54, it takes 4. That's not a CI optimisation. We didn't add parallel runners or bump the machine size. We just landed on the SDK that ships precompiled XCFrameworks by default. Same code, same build profile, same EAS plan — 70% time reduction. Worth understanding what Expo actually changed. What got precompiled…