Google Cloud from the perspective of someone who already knows AWS: the resource hierarchy that replaces accounts and OUs, IAM that works completely differently, GKE as the best managed Kubernetes, Cloud Run as containers-done-serverless, BigQuery as the genuinely differentiated killer app, and the global VPC model that will break your mental picture on day one. Includes a full AWS-to-GCP service translation table.
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AWS EKS Deep Dive: Managed Kubernetes on AWS A comprehensive technical guide to Amazon EKS covering node groups vs Fargate vs Karpenter, IRSA, Pod Identity, add-ons lifecycle, networking choices, cluster upgrades with zero downtime, EKS Anywhere, and cost optimization.
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LocalStack: AWS Development Without the Cloud Bill A deep technical guide to LocalStack 2026 — running 110+ AWS services locally, integrating with Terraform, CDK, and CI pipelines, understanding the fidelity gaps that matter, and the major structural changes that ended the free community edition.
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AWS CDK Deep Dive Construct levels L1/L2/L3, stacks and environments, custom constructs, CDK Pipelines, escape hatches, testing, and an honest CDK vs Terraform comparison.
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AWS EventBridge in Depth Event buses, schema discovery, archives and replay, Pipes for point-to-point integration, Scheduler for replacing cron jobs, cross-account routing, and real-world patterns including the saga.
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AWS IAM: Permission Boundaries, SCPs, and Least Privilege at Scale IAM policy evaluation logic, permission boundaries, Service Control Policies, IAM Access Analyzer, ABAC with tags, and the common misconfigurations that lead to privilege escalation.
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AWS Networking Deep Dive: VPCs, Transit Gateway, and PrivateLink A practical guide to AWS network design: CIDR planning that won't strand you later, subnet layout by tier and AZ, security groups vs NACLs, VPC peering vs Transit Gateway vs PrivateLink decision framework, NAT Gateway patterns, and Route 53 Resolver for private DNS and hybrid environments.
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AWS Systems Manager: Beyond Parameter Store Session Manager for SSH-free access, Run Command for fleet operations, Patch Manager, Automation runbooks, State Manager for configuration drift, and the full no-bastion-host architecture.
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Cloud Cost Engineering: FinOps Without the Buzzwords A practical guide to cloud cost engineering: commitment discounts (Savings Plans vs Reserved Instances vs Spot), tagging governance for real cost allocation, rightsizing with Compute Optimizer, hunting idle and zombie resources, data transfer costs that hide in plain sight, storage tier optimization, and the organizational work that matters more than any tool.
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Cloud Database Trade-offs: RDS vs Aurora vs DynamoDB vs ElastiCache When to use RDS, Aurora, Aurora Serverless v2, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache. Connection pooling with RDS Proxy, single-table DynamoDB design, partition hotspots, Valkey, and the cost math.
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Container Security in the Cloud: From Image to Runtime Supply chain hardening with Cosign and Syft, ECR scanning, Pod Security Standards, Falco runtime detection, network policies, External Secrets Operator, and admission controllers.
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Crossplane: Kubernetes-Native Cloud Infrastructure Managed Resources, Composite Resources, Claims, XRDs, and Compositions in depth. Provider auth, composition functions, ArgoCD integration, and an honest comparison with Terraform.
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HashiCorp Packer: Golden AMIs and Immutable Infrastructure HCL2 build templates, multi-builder parallelism, provisioners, post-processors, HCP Packer lineage tracking, and building a production AMI pipeline in GitHub Actions.
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Incident Response Automation: Self-Healing Infrastructure with AWS, Ansible, and Observable Feedback Loops A deep technical guide to building automated incident response pipelines with AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks, EventBridge-triggered remediation, Lambda auto-remediation patterns, Ansible for incident response, and self-healing infrastructure with observable feedback loops.
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Karpenter: Kubernetes Node Autoscaling Done Right A practical guide to Karpenter: how it differs from cluster-autoscaler, NodePool and EC2NodeClass configuration, Spot instance handling with automatic fallback, consolidation and disruption budgets, weighted NodePools for multi-tier workloads, GPU node provisioning, drift detection, and the operational patterns that reduce your EC2 bill.
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Multi-Region Active-Active: What It Actually Takes Latency routing, conflict resolution, DynamoDB Global Tables, Aurora Global Database, RTO/RPO math, and why most teams shouldn't attempt full active-active.
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OpenSearch in Production Index lifecycle management, shard sizing decisions, dashboards, alerting, k-NN neural search, the OpenSearch vs Elasticsearch question in 2026, and running OpenSearch on Kubernetes.
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Serverless in Production: Lambda Patterns That Hold Up A practical guide to running AWS Lambda in production: the cold start problem and its real solutions, concurrency and throttling mechanics, event-driven fan-out with SQS and SNS, Step Functions for durable orchestration, API Gateway cost traps, container images vs layers, idempotency, and the patterns that break under load.
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Terraform at Scale: Modules, Remote State, and the Drift Problem A practical guide to running Terraform in production: S3 remote state with native locking, workspace vs directory-based environment separation, module versioning strategies, Terragrunt for DRY configuration, drift detection in CI, moved blocks for safe refactoring, and state surgery when things go sideways.
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Radius: Microsoft's Open-Source Application Platform for Cloud-Native Teams A comprehensive deep dive into Radius — the CNCF sandbox application platform that separates developer concerns from infrastructure concerns. Covers the application model, Recipes, Environments, Connections, the rad CLI, architecture, and how it compares to Crossplane, Score, and Humanitec.
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Karpenter: Intelligent Node Autoscaling for Kubernetes How Karpenter outperforms Cluster Autoscaler with just-in-time node provisioning, flexible NodePool configuration, spot instance handling, bin-packing, and intelligent cost optimization strategies.
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Crossplane: Infrastructure as Kubernetes — Composites, Providers, and Replacing Terraform A comprehensive guide to Crossplane — the Kubernetes-native control plane for infrastructure. Covers providers, managed resources, composite resource definitions, compositions, claims, RBAC, and running a production platform that lets developers self-serve cloud resources safely.
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NFS and Network Storage: A Complete Guide from Homelab to the Cloud An exhaustive guide to network storage — NFSv3 vs NFSv4, Samba/SMB, iSCSI block storage, Lustre parallel filesystems, and Ceph, plus how all of these map to homelab deployments and cloud equivalents on Azure, AWS, and GCP.