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Cloud Connectivity in AWS: Choosing Between NAT and Internet Gateways
During a few of my AWS Cloud infrastructure build outs, client team members tend to wonder and ask why I use both Internet Gateway service, as well as a NAT Gateway service when setting up the network layer of the environment. Some with advanced networking knowledge made a point stating that we could skip the…
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Cloud Services at a Glance: From Infrastructure to Software
The idea of cloud computing emerged in the early 2000s as businesses began seeking alternatives to the cost and complexity of maintaining on-premise servers and infrastructure. The first major development was Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), which provided virtualized computing resources such as servers, networking, and storage on-demand. Instead of owning physical hardware, companies could…
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Containers Unboxed: Navigating the Sweet Spot Between ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes (K8s)
Containers: A lightweight, portable unit that packages an application and its dependencies into a single standardized executable image. Unlike traditional applications that rely on host operating systems and local dependencies, containers provide isolation at the process level, ensuring consistency regardless of where they run—be it on a developer’s laptop, an on-premises server, or a cloud…
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From Servers to the Cloud: The Story of SysAdmin, DevOps, and SRE Roles
In the world of technology, three roles have shaped how systems are built, run, and kept alive: the traditional System Administrator, the modern DevOps engineer, and the specialized Site Reliability Engineer. Each emerged from different needs, shaped by the tools and challenges of their time. As businesses shifted from on-premises hardware to cloud-native architectures, these…
