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Business
Measure a CI/CD Pipeline: Events, Metrics, and Bottlenecks
Instrument CI/CD from commit to production. Define event fields, separate queue and execution time, track deployment failures, and choose one measurable fix.
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AWS Well-Architected Cost Optimization: A Workload Review
Review AWS workload costs with evidence: ownership, demand, resource sizing, pricing commitments, data transfer, and a prioritized improvement backlog.
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Cloud Cost Management: Ownership, Budgets, and Cost Controls
Build a cloud cost management process with workload owners, cost allocation, budget alerts, safe resource changes, and checks that show whether savings last.
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AWS Pricing Models: On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot
Match AWS compute pricing to workload demand, interruption tolerance, and commitment risk. Compare On-Demand, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and Spot.
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Cloud strategy consulting: what the work involves and how to choose a firm
What a cloud strategy engagement should produce, where cloud plans fail in practice, and how to choose a firm, for Canadian organizations running or modernizing cloud workloads.
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What operational ownership changes in cloud platform design
The question is not whether a design works in the first ninety days. It is who holds the system at 2 a.m. in year three, and what they will wish we had done. Six design habits that follow from carrying your own pager.
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Technology: A Tool, Not a Silver Bullet
Technology is meant to be the sharpened tool that helps companies slice through blockers and gain a competitive edge, the miracle growth serum that propels them to 10x growth. It can be all these things when used properly, but too often,…
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