AWS
Why us-east-1 Fails the Most — and How to Avoid the Blast Radius
us-east-1 is AWS's oldest, densest region, and that history makes it the most likely to take your service down with it — here's how to architect around it.
AWS Regions and Availability Zones: How to Architect Across Them
A practical guide to understanding AWS Regions and AZs and making concrete architectural decisions that keep your services resilient.
Application Load Balancer vs Network Load Balancer: Choosing the Right One for Your Stack
A practical breakdown of when to use AWS ALB versus NLB, with concrete criteria to help you decide before you deploy.
Surviving an AWS AZ Failure with Multi-AZ Design
A practical guide to architecting your AWS workloads so a single Availability Zone outage becomes a non-event instead of a crisis.
Why us-east-1 Fails the Most — and How to Avoid the Blast Radius
us-east-1 is AWS's oldest, largest, and most failure-prone region — here's what makes it risky and how to architect around it.
Application Load Balancer vs Network Load Balancer: Choosing Right on AWS
A practical breakdown of when to use ALB versus NLB so you pick the right tool before traffic hits production.
Application Load Balancer vs Network Load Balancer: Choosing Right on AWS
A practical breakdown of when to use ALB versus NLB so you pick the right tool before traffic hits production.
Why us-east-1 Fails the Most — and How to Avoid the Blast Radius
us-east-1 is AWS's oldest, busiest, and most failure-prone region — here's why that matters and what you can do to protect your systems.
Route 53 Health Checks and DNS Failover: A Step-by-Step Guide
How to configure Route 53 health checks and DNS failover so traffic automatically reroutes when your primary endpoint goes down.
Surviving an AWS AZ Failure with Multi-AZ Design
A practical guide to architecting your AWS workloads across multiple Availability Zones so a single AZ outage doesn't take your service down.
AWS Regions and Availability Zones: How to Architect Across Them
A practical guide to understanding AWS Regions and AZs, and the concrete patterns for building services that survive infrastructure failures.