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Happy 20th Birthday, AWS EC2: The Server That Changed Software Forever
EC2 turned 20 on August 25, 2026. A practitioner's retrospective on how a $0.10/hr beta in 2006, built by 14 engineers in Cape Town, rewired the software industry. From m1.small to Graviton5 and 39 global regions.
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"DevOps Engineer" Is Dead. Here's the New Title You Need on Your Resume by Friday
Platform Engineer, SRE, MLOps, the 2024-2025 salary data shows which title pays more and lands interviews faster. Backed by Kube Careers, DORA 2024, and the State of Platform Engineering survey. Here's the exact framework to update your resume this week.
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Why You Need a Multi-DNS Provider Strategy (Lessons From the 2025 AWS and Cloudflare Outages)
DNS is the quiet single point of failure that most of the internet still bets everything on. Two 2025 outages proved the cost: on October 20 a DNS fault inside AWS us-east-1 cascaded across the internet for about 15 hours, and on November 18 Cloudflare, a provider that runs DNS for millions of domains, went dark for roughly six hours. Neither shared a cause, but both teach the same lesson: if every name your service depends on resolves through one provider, that provider is your outage.
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Disaster Recovery: RTO, RPO, and Blast Radius after the AWS Outages
For an SRE, disaster recovery is not a binder you open after everything is on fire. It is a set of measured objectives (SLOs), a defined error budget, and rehearsed, automated failover whose blast radius you have already mapped. Two outages between late 2025 and early 2026 prove why: one a software control-plane cascade, the other a physical loss of data centers, and both defeating the same assumption that a single cloud region is a safe place to keep all your eggs.
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CI/CD Pipelines: From Commit to Production Without the Midnight Deploy
CI/CD pipelines automate the path from a code commit to a running release. Here's what continuous integration and delivery actually mean, the gates a real pipeline runs, lint, test, build, publish, deploy and a walkthrough of the exact GitHub Actions → ECR → ArgoCD flow that ships this site, plus how to start small without over-building it.
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