Cloud is fun until the bill lands. The month ends, a budget alert pings Slack, and suddenly that neat side project or that new microservice looks like a line item with teeth. I have been there. This week after re Invent, with everyone still buzzing about new toys, it feels…
Category: Digital Transformation
Modernizing legacy systems, cloud migrations, and organizational change. Strategies for transforming technology and processes in the digital age.
Designing for Failure in the Cloud
“Everything fails. Your job is to decide how your users will experience it.” an SRE I trust Last night on call and the quiet hero of timeouts It is late. Pager buzz. Coffee number three. A service in us east is flapping. Requests go out, nothing comes back, threads pile…
What Cloud Really Changes: Paying for Possibility
What cloud really changes is not just where your servers live. It is how you think about bets, timing, and risk. If you work with cloud computing, build with serverless architecture, or run microservices on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, this is about the shift you feel but cannot always…
Adobe managed services for aem arrives
Adobe Managed Services for AEM just landed in the real world, and my phone buzzed right as we were rolling back a cranky publish node. Midnight coffee, tired eyes, and a dispatcher cache that refused to behave. Our ops lead looked at me and said, what if someone else owned…
CloudFront for Static Assets: Speed on a Budget
Static assets run the show. Your page feels fast or slow because of images, fonts, and bundles. If you are shipping on a budget, Amazon CloudFront gives you global speed without fancy contracts or a huge bill. What goes behind CloudFront? Start with the easy wins. Put your images, CSS,…
Dockerfiles that Age Well
Dockerfiles that Age Well. Containers from a practitioner’s perspective with timeless lessons for Dockerfile best practices, smaller Docker images, and reliable production containers. I was on a late Friday, coffee cooling on the desk, staring at a build that worked on my laptop and exploded on a tiny VPS. The…
Writing Tests First on Legacy Systems
Last week the internet learned a hard lesson with Heartbleed. Teams scrambled to patch and redeploy while everyone refreshed status pages. It was a reminder that our code is not a museum. It is alive, and it bites when touched without a net. That is why I keep coming back…
Networking in the Cloud: Latency as a Feature
We moved our apps to the cloud for elastic compute and forgot that the wire is not free. Today the network is product territory and latency is a knob you can design with. Compute keeps getting cheaper and closer to on demand, but the real story is between the servers,…
Migrating Ant to Maven: A Practical Path
\n I remember a Friday night release where our Ant build ran fine on my laptop and blew up on the build server. A jar crept into lib/ locally and never made it to source control. We shipped late, and someone swore the build fairy was cursed. That was the…
Graceful Degradation for Legacy Browsers
Graceful degradation is back on my mind tonight. Everyone is shipping shiny AJAX features, yet support tickets still come from people stuck on legacy browsers. If you build for the top of the market only, you will pay for it with every deploy. So let us talk about building cool…