A conflicting viewpoint — A few days ago, I wrote a story about why now is a great time to change jobs if you are looking to do so, and 2 qualities you should be displaying to give yourself better odds at getting the one you want. However now I would like to give…

Visible, Valuable — It is no secret that the current labor market in the USA is currently quite strong, although there are a few signs that it is starting to loosen a little bit. …

Know what you need, regularly analyze what you have — It is not secret that you can both save money and generate substantial income for your business by leveraging cloud computing. If that were not the case, then almost $74 billion in 2021 alone would not have been spent for cloud computing services. …

The differences and use cases in each — For whatever reason, in the world of tech acronyms are absolutely adored. My guess is that it just makes talking about things easier since there are a lot of concepts, technologies, platforms etc. to be discussed and leveraged. Regardless, IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS are hot topics that you should at…

Monitor, Restrict, and Prepare through automation — With numerous high profile security incidents being brought to light lately, as well as countless others that don’t make headlines, securing your architecture and workloads is as important now more than ever. …

Keep it simple and predictable — Periodized training refers to systematically and progressively increasing load over time. In this article we will use the context of running but periodized training can be applied to other disciplines like working and studying. The reason why it is beautiful and efficient is because it allows you to marginally increase…

Not an all inclusive list — It is well known that everyone has their own unique situation and life they are living that other people may or may not be able to relate to. When I write stories like this what really grinds my gears is when people say that it is not relevant because *insert…

Subtle differences but closely related — Another couple of common words that get confused and interchanged are reliability and availability. Although they both need to be taken into consideration when designing a well-architected framework, there are some key differences you need to be aware of. First, lets look at what they actually mean and then we…

Database for structure, Storage for whatever — A common cause of confusion when working with cloud infrastructure comes when trying to differentiate storage and database. Both are useful and extremely valuable, however if we want to build efficient, cost-optimized and well-architected frameworks we need to be sure to use the appropriate solution depending on the use case. …