AWS
AWS Regions and Availability Zones: How to Architect Across Them
A practical guide to understanding AWS Regions and AZs, and how to design systems that stay up when infrastructure fails.
Application Load Balancer vs Network Load Balancer: Choosing the Right AWS Load Balancer
A practical breakdown of when to use ALB versus NLB on AWS, with concrete criteria to guide your architecture decision.
Route 53 Health Checks and DNS Failover, Step by Step
How to configure Route 53 health checks and DNS failover so traffic automatically routes away from a failing endpoint — with no manual intervention required.
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 make the right call 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 an incident.
AWS Regions and Availability Zones: How to Architect Across Them
A practical guide to understanding AWS's geographic infrastructure and designing systems that survive zone and region failures.
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.