Azure Backend Architecture: App Service vs Container Apps vs AKS vs Functions
A concise Azure backend architecture guide comparing App Service, Container Apps, AKS, Functions, and VMs, plus Azure databases, Blob Storage, Service Bus, managed identities, and Key Vault.
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Amazon S3 Explained: Object Storage, Presigned URLs, Versioning, Security, and Lifecycle
A concise Amazon S3 guide covering object storage, private buckets, presigned uploads/downloads, Versioning, Object Lock, storage classes, lifecycle rules, IAM, and backend file architecture.
Amazon EC2 Explained: Instances, EBS, Security Groups, Auto Scaling, and Load Balancing
A concise Amazon EC2 guide covering instance selection, EBS, security groups, IAM roles, IMDSv2, Launch Templates, Application Load Balancers, Auto Scaling, and replaceable production VMs.
Deploying a Backend on AWS: EC2 vs ECS Fargate vs Lambda
A practical AWS backend deployment guide comparing EC2, ECS with Fargate, Lambda, and EKS, plus load balancing, private networking, RDS, S3, SQS, IAM, secrets, and production reliability.
Google Cloud Explained: Compute, Databases, Storage, Networking, and IAM
A practical introduction to Google Cloud covering Cloud Run, GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, networking, IAM, and well-architected design.
AWS Explained: Compute, Storage, Databases, Networking, and IAM
A practical introduction to AWS covering EC2, ECS/Fargate, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC networking, messaging, IAM, Regions/AZs, and the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Cloud Architecture Basics: Regions, Availability Zones, Scaling, Data, and Failure Design
A provider-neutral cloud architecture guide covering regions and availability zones, replaceable compute, managed data, load balancing, queues, autoscaling, IAM, recovery, and reliability/cost trade-offs.
Cloud Backend Architecture: APIs, Databases, Queues, Storage, Caching, and Scaling
A provider-neutral cloud backend blueprint covering stateless APIs, relational data, object storage, queues, workers, caching, scaling, identity, observability, backups, and failure design.
Amazon RDS Explained: Multi-AZ, Read Replicas, Backups, and Connection Scaling
A concise Amazon RDS guide covering Multi-AZ high availability, read replicas, automated backups and point-in-time recovery, RDS Proxy, private networking, and database monitoring.
Microsoft Azure Explained: Compute, Databases, Storage, Networking, and Identity
A practical introduction to Microsoft Azure covering compute, databases, Blob Storage, networking, Service Bus, Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, and the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
AWS Lambda Explained: Concurrency, Cold Starts, Events, and Durable Functions
A concise AWS Lambda guide covering standard functions, concurrency, cold starts, provisioned concurrency, event retries, idempotency, and the newer Durable Functions workflow model.
GCP Backend Architecture: Cloud Run vs GKE vs Compute Engine
A concise Google Cloud backend architecture guide comparing Cloud Run, GKE, and Compute Engine, plus Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, service accounts, IAM, and private infrastructure.