Operations
Server Logs: What to Keep and for How Long
Logs are the only record of what actually happened. They are also a storage cost and a privacy liability, which makes retention…
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Category: <span>Operations</span>
Running infrastructure day to day: monitoring, scaling, storage and migration.
Operations
What an Uptime Guarantee Really Promises
A service level agreement is a billing arrangement, not a promise that things will not break. Reading one properly changes what you…
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Operations
Managed Databases vs Running Your Own
A managed database costs more per month and less in attention. Which trade is right depends on one honest question.
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Operations
Object Storage vs Block Storage
Two things both called storage, with almost nothing in common. Choosing the wrong one makes straightforward work unnecessarily hard.
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Operations
Load Balancers: When You Actually Need One
A load balancer solves two different problems, and most people adding one are solving the second without realising it.
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Operations
Planning a Cloud Migration Between Providers
Migration fails on the things nobody listed. A method for finding them before you start, and a sequence that keeps a rollback…
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Operations
DNS Basics for Your First Deployment
Enough DNS to point a domain at a server, understand why a change has not taken effect, and avoid the two mistakes…
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Operations
Scaling Up vs Scaling Out
A bigger server, or more servers. The first is simpler than its reputation suggests, and the second is harder.
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Operations
Server Monitoring: What to Watch on a Single Server
You do not need an observability platform to run one server. You do need four alerts, and one of them prevents most…
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