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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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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…
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IaC – What it is, and Why it Matters
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) refers to the practice of managing and provisioning IT infrastructure through code rather than through manual processes. With IaC, infrastructure configurations—such as servers, networks, databases, and security settings—are written in machine-readable code and stored in version-controlled repositories. This approach enables the automation of infrastructure management, which is both repeatable and consistent,…
