Workloads 4 min read
Multi-Tenant SaaS Infrastructure: Isolation Models and Their Costs
The tenancy model is the decision everything else inherits. Choosing it late, or by accident, is how SaaS platforms end up expensive and hard to certify.
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Practical guidance on cloud accounts, provider selection, infrastructure sizing and post-transfer operations.
Workloads 4 min read
GPU and AI Workloads: Matching Hardware to What You Are Actually Doing
Training, fine-tuning and inference are three different workloads with three different hardware profiles. Buying for the wrong one is the expensive mistake.
Workloads 4 min read
Self-Hosted CI Runners: When They Pay for Themselves
Hosted CI minutes are convenient until the bill arrives. Self-hosted runners are cheaper and faster, and the security model needs thinking about.
Workloads 5 min read
Running Databases on Cloud Infrastructure Without Regret
The database is where cloud decisions stop being reversible. Storage, memory and connection limits matter more here than anywhere else in the stack.
Workloads 4 min read
Hosting a Web Application on Cloud Servers: A Working Architecture
You do not need a distributed system to host a web application well. You need a small number of correct decisions, made in the right order.
Workloads 4 min read
Development and Staging Environments That Are Worth Having
A staging environment that does not resemble production tells you nothing. One that does costs money. Here is how to resolve that tension sensibly.
Cloud Fundamentals 4 min read
Cloud Egress Costs: The Line Item That Decides Your Provider
Data is cheap to store and expensive to move. For any workload that serves volume, egress is not a line item — it is the decision.
Cloud Fundamentals 5 min read
How to Size vCPU and Memory Without Guessing
Most instances are sized by guesswork and never revisited. Measuring takes an afternoon and usually pays for itself in the first month.
Cloud Fundamentals 4 min read
Block vs Object Storage: Choosing the Right One Saves Real Money
Using block storage where object storage belongs is one of the most common and most expensive cloud mistakes. The distinction is simple once you see it.
Cloud Fundamentals 4 min read
VPC Networking Basics: Subnets, Security Groups and the Private Path
Most cloud security incidents involve something reachable from the internet that did not need to be. VPC design is how you stop that being possible.
Cloud Fundamentals 4 min read
Choosing a Cloud Region: Latency, Residency and the Cost of Getting It Wrong
Region is one of the few decisions that is genuinely expensive to reverse. Latency, price, residency and service availability all vary, and not together.
Cloud Fundamentals 4 min read
Cloud Billing Models Explained: On-Demand, Committed, Spot and Credit
Compute is rarely where a cloud bill goes wrong. The models are simple; it is the second-order charges that catch people out.
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