Cloud Cost Alternatives

AWS Data Transfer Costs Exploding: How To Find And Fix Unexpected Cross-Region Traffic Charges

You opened your AWS bill last month and did a double-take. Data transfer charges that were $200 last quarter are now sitting at $1,800. Nothing major chang...

GCP Committed Use Discounts Vs Sustained Use Discounts: Maximize Savings With Workload Analysis

As platform engineers, we're constantly balancing performance, reliability, and cost optimization. Google Cloud Platform's discount models—Committed Use Di...

Multi-Cloud Networking: Transit Gateway Patterns for AWS and Azure

How to design multi-cloud connectivity between AWS and Azure using Transit Gateway and Virtual WAN — patterns, pitfalls, and cost tradeoffs.

Kubernetes

Container Orchestration

Open-source container orchestration platform for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. The de facto standard for running production workloads at scale.

Docker

Containers

Platform for building, shipping, and running applications in containers. Docker pioneered the container revolution and remains the most popular container toolchain for development workflows.

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code tool by HashiCorp that lets you define cloud and on-premises resources in human-readable configuration files. Supports 3,000+ providers across every major cloud.

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