The GPU Shortage Aftermath
The AI boom created a GPU shortage that's reshaping how companies think about compute access and infrastructure....
3,000 AWS Instances Later: The Real Cost of Cloud
Direct experience running 3,000+ AWS instances. Hidden costs (egress, support tiers), optimization strategies, and why 78% of companies waste 21-50% of their cloud spend....
Observability Theater: When Dashboards Replace Understanding
The observability market will hit $172 billion by 2035, yet alert fatigue is epidemic and engineers spend 40% of time on tooling. Dashboards create illusion of control while real understanding require...
Serverless Was a Lie
Serverless promised to eliminate infrastructure concerns. Instead it created new problems: cold starts, vendor lock-in, debugging nightmares, and costs that spiral at scale. Containers won. Kubernetes...
Grace Hopper's Nanosecond: The Wire That Explains Everything
Grace Hopper's famous nanosecond wire demonstration—and why understanding physical constraints still matters for every system we build today....
Computers Are Cheap, Developers Are Expensive
Why premature optimization wastes developer time. The economics of knowing when code is good enough and when performance actually matters....
The Anatomy of a Production Outage
The pattern behind production outages: the 2am alert, the escalating panic, the decision that makes it worse. What separates teams that recover from teams that don't....
Serverless Done Right
Serverless works for event-driven, bursty, stateless workloads. Here's how to avoid cold start pain, manage state, choose the right granularity, and know when containers are better....
The Real Cost of Cheap GPUs
Alternative GPU clouds offer 50-80% savings over hyperscalers. The AI revolution is being democratized, but AWS would prefer you didn't know....