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This is part of my enterprise cloud architecture series. In simple systems you probably don't know all of these services, or you have no need for them. You use the default IAM policies, you encrypt and manage your own keys, and certs are self served. You have your
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This is part of my enterprise cloud architecture series. In basics, you don't spin up a firewall. It's a secondary thought. But firewalls are 1 of the most important defences and there is more to what you know about them. Your idea of firewall probably comes
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In every tutorial the app runs on one server with one public IP, and that is fine until the server dies at 2am or a sale sends everyone to it at once. Real companies don't run on one. This is part of my enterprise cloud architecture series. If
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This is part of my enterprise cloud architecture series. You open a tutorial on hosting a website on AWS and it goes EC2, load balancer, database, done. Then you look at how companies actually draw their architecture and the very first box, before the VPC, before anything you just built,
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A weekly series on why companies draw (and connect) their cloud the way they do You learn AWS the way most of us did. One VPC, one EC2 instance with a public IP, an S3 bucket, and a security group open to the whole world "just to see if
When you are working on deploying infrastructure, especially expensive enterprise stacks, always deploying to AWS might not be necessary or even useful cost wise. Most of the time you just want to prove that your configuration works. Your Terraform plans cleanly, your Lambda actually triggers off that SQS queue, your
Everyday my routine has become to check and hope that there is not another vulnerability that I now have to research and think about my own personal setups and systems but also systems at work. This wasn't the case remotely a few months ago. Everything was normal nothing
After working on my self hosted cloud gaming : which you can read here Self Hosted Cloud Gaming : Apollo/Sunshine and Moonlight and TailscaleSo you have bought a gaming handheld like the steamdeck or legion go, or you want to build a gaming server that allows you to not have everyone
Claude Code is one of the best AI tools right now, to be able code directly in the CLI is very useful but we are tied to the laptop itself. I always have some form of Idea or some new thing I want to test at random times when I
And why do so many cloud services keep going down? Cloudflare went down on Nov 18 2025, this cause many services to not be available, things like chatgpt, X (twitter) and many more major services. Services I host as well were not available as I use cloudflare as my main
So you have bought a gaming handheld like the steamdeck or legion go, or you want to build a gaming server that allows you to not have everyone in the house make their own PC, the following guide will help you out in understanding how to setup your local Cloud
As someone who needs transcoding because I don’t have the patience to build a humongous storage set for me and my friends and family, I need transcoding. What is transcoding If you watch Netflix or YouTube and sometimes you notice the quality go up and down, that is happening