Rightsizing Cloud Infrastructure: A Practical Audit Framework
A step-by-step audit you can run in an afternoon to find overprovisioned compute, storage, and databases, plus the order to fix them in so you don't break anything important.
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A step-by-step audit you can run in an afternoon to find overprovisioned compute, storage, and databases, plus the order to fix them in so you don't break anything important.
Platform engineering stopped being 'DevOps with a rebrand' a while ago. A look at what actually shifted in how platform teams operate, and what's still recycled advice wearing a new label.
Your cloud bill has a line item for 'AI API costs' and no way to tell which feature, customer, or prompt is driving it. Here's how to build attribution before the finance conversation forces you to.
Bolting a chatbot onto your developer portal is not the same as designing GenAI into the golden path from the start. A walk-through of where it actually helps and where it just adds latency.
Prevent remote code execution vulnerabilities in MCP. Learn how to configure isolated execution environments using Docker and Firecracker microVMs.
Learn how to build a Kubernetes MCP server to manage clusters with natural language. Automate pod inspection, describe services, and debug namespace logs using Claude.
Block unauthorized AI agent connections. Learn how to configure Nginx IP whitelists and Linux UFW firewalls to protect remote MCP servers.
Carbon accounting for infrastructure is where cost accounting was a decade ago: inconsistent tooling, no shared vocabulary, and most teams flying blind. Here's a workable starting framework.
You don't need a FinOps title or a platform team to stop your cloud bill from surprising you every month. Here is the lightweight version that a five-person team can actually run.
Lead time and DORA metrics tell you the system is healthy. They don't tell you whether your platform team caused it. Here's a scorecard that separates platform impact from everything else.
Six backend and infrastructure patterns for reducing energy and carbon impact that go beyond 'compress your images' — demand shaping, batch consolidation, and honest tradeoffs for each.
Most IDP write-ups are success stories from vendors selling the platform. This one is about the ways I've actually watched them fail, and why the failure is rarely a technology problem.