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The cloud isn't cheap anymore: welcome to the FinOps era
Apr 30, 26
The cloud isn't cheap anymore: welcome to the FinOps era
The promise that the cloud cuts costs has expired: now it's FinOps, the practice that turns your cloud bill into just another system metric.
Cloud
Serverless, Containers, and VMs: Pick Your Poison (and Your Bill)
Apr 20, 26
Serverless, Containers, and VMs: Pick Your Poison (and Your Bill)
VMs, containers, and serverless compared without dogma: control, costs, lock-in, and when to pick each deployment model.
Infrastructure
Toxic metrics: story points, commits, and other creative ways to fool yourself
Apr 13, 26
Toxic metrics: story points, commits, and other creative ways to fool yourself
Why measuring productivity with story points, commits, or lines of code destroys teams, and what metrics actually make sense.
Opinion
Rewriting from scratch: 'hold my beer'
Apr 10, 26
Rewriting from scratch: 'hold my beer'
The urge to throw out the code and rewrite from scratch almost always costs more than you think: why we underestimate the real price and when it actually makes sense.
Opinion
Infrastructure as Code: Why Your Infrastructure Deserves Version Control Just Like Your Code
Mar 30, 26
Infrastructure as Code: Why Your Infrastructure Deserves Version Control Just Like Your Code
Your infrastructure is already software: it has state, bugs, and side effects. IaC is how you version it — and when you screw up, at least leave a trail.
Infrastructure
AI everywhere: the ketchup-on-everything syndrome
Mar 23, 26
AI everywhere: the ketchup-on-everything syndrome
AI-washing and AI slop are eroding trust in real AI: how to spot the smoke and what to do instead.
Opinion
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