A practical guide to choosing between monolithic and microservices architectures on AWS — team size, deployment complexity, operational cost, and the patterns that help you choose the right approach for your stage.
A practical guide to AWS API Gateway — choosing between REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs, authentication patterns, throttling, caching, and the architecture decisions that determine API performance and cost.
A practical guide to ElastiCache Redis — caching patterns, data structures, cluster modes, eviction policies, and the strategies that reduce latency and database load in production applications.
A practical guide to AWS cost monitoring — Cost Explorer analysis patterns, budget alerts, anomaly detection, cost allocation tags, and the monitoring practices that prevent surprise bills.
A practical guide to AWS Cognito for SaaS authentication — user pools, hosted UI, social federation, multi-tenant patterns, token customization, and the architecture decisions that determine whether Cognito fits your application.
A practical comparison of AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins for CI/CD on AWS — covering integration, cost, scalability, and team fit.
A practical guide to AWS WAF for production web applications — managed rule groups, custom rules, rate limiting, bot control, and the layered defense strategy that protects without blocking legitimate traffic.
A practical guide to AWS EventBridge for event-driven architectures — event buses, rules, schema discovery, cross-account patterns, and the design principles that make event-driven systems reliable.
A practical guide to AWS QuickSight for business intelligence — data source integration, SPICE performance, embedded analytics, row-level security, and cost-effective dashboard patterns.
A comprehensive guide to S3 security — bucket policies, encryption, access logging, Block Public Access, and the practices that prevent the data breaches that make headlines.
A practical comparison of Terraform and AWS CDK for infrastructure as code — language support, state management, multi-cloud vs AWS-native trade-offs, and when to choose each.
A practical guide to AWS CloudWatch for production observability — custom metrics, structured logging, alarm strategies, dashboards, and cost-effective monitoring patterns.