Field notes on cloud, cost & reliability
Practical writing on FinOps, DevOps, SRE and breaking into cloud — the stuff I’d tell a client or a mentee, written down.
How to Reduce Your AWS Bill: A Practical Checklist
A field-tested checklist for cutting AWS costs, ordered from the fastest, safest wins to the deeper structural changes.
Read article →AWS Savings Plans vs Reserved Instances: Which Should You Use?
A plain-English guide to the two main AWS commitment options, when each one wins, and how to avoid locking in waste.
DevOps Consultant vs In-House Hire: What's Right for Your Stage?
When a fractional consultant beats a full-time hire, when it does not, and how to get the best of both without overpaying.
How to Become a DevOps Engineer in 2026: A Realistic Roadmap
The skills that actually matter, the order to learn them, and how to get hired, from someone who has done the hiring.
How to Cut Cloud Costs 30% Without Breaking Anything
A pragmatic, reliability-first playbook for reducing AWS spend, covering the levers that actually move the needle in the order I pull them.
Writing SLOs Your Engineers Will Actually Respect
SLOs fail when they are vanity metrics handed down from above. Here is how to define ones that drive real decisions and end on-call burnout.
Golden Paths: Platform Engineering Without the Hype
An internal developer platform isn't a Kubernetes dashboard. It is about making the right way the easy way. Here is what actually matters.