Cloud articles
Shipping and scaling without drama - cloud cost, infrastructure, and the operational calls that keep things running.
AI writes code faster than you can review it. Now what?
AI generation exploded, but human review capacity didn't. LinearB's 8.1M-PR study shows the bottleneck moved from writing code to verifying it.
Your AI agent writes code. Where does it run?
The moment an agent executes code built from untrusted input, prompt injection becomes remote code execution. Here's how to sandbox agent code safely in 2026.
Observability: logs vs metrics vs traces, and what you need
Metrics say something's wrong, logs say what happened, traces say where. You need all three - emit them with OpenTelemetry, then control cost at the pipeline.
The cloud bill nobody modeled: egress and the IPv4 tax
Cloud providers now compete on networking, not compute. Egress, NAT, and IPv4 fees are a hidden ~18% tax - and optimization tops out where architecture wins.
AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud in 2026: how to choose
AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud in 2026: real market share, what each is genuinely best at, and a practical way to choose - without the hype.
How to control your cloud costs in 2026 (FinOps that works)
How to control cloud costs in 2026: where the ~27% of wasted spend goes, the fixes that actually move the bill, and how FinOps cuts it 15-30%.
What DevOps actually is (CI/CD, IaC, and the DORA metrics)
What DevOps actually is in 2026: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and monitoring, plus the four DORA metrics that tell you whether it's working.