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Your AI Provider Is a Single Point of Failure

Last Friday, a government letter took Anthropic’s most advanced models offline worldwide. If your architecture doesn’t assume your AI provider will disappear, you’re running on …

  • AI
  • resilience
  • architecture
  • GenAI
2 min read

#AWS PrivateLink vs. NAT Gateway from a Pricing Perspective

A customer came to me with a request. They do not want to use a NAT gateway from their VPC to access the AWS API’s. They had a number of security concerns regarding the use of a NAT gateway (no …

  • Design
  • Architecture
  • AWS
  • Cloud
7 min read

Replacing the AWS ELB - Automation

This is Part 5 in the Replacing the AWS ELB series. Replacing the AWS ELB - The Problem Replacing the AWS ELB - The Challenges Replacing the AWS ELB - The Design Replacing the AWS ELB - The Network …

  •  haproxy
  • Automation
  •  ELB
  •  loadbalancer
4 min read

Replacing the AWS ELB - Final Thoughts

This is the last part in the Replacing the AWS ELB series. Replacing the AWS ELB - The Problem Replacing the AWS ELB - The Challenges Replacing the AWS ELB - The Design Replacing the AWS ELB - The …

  •  haproxy
  • Automation
  •  ELB
  •  loadbalancer
2 min read

Replacing the AWS ELB - The Design

This is Part 3 in the Replacing the AWS ELB series. Replacing the AWS ELB - The Problem Replacing the AWS ELB - The Challenges Replacing the AWS ELB - The Design (this post) Replacing the AWS ELB - …

  •  haproxy
  • Automation
  •  ELB
  •  loadbalancer
4 min read

Replacing the AWS ELB - The Challenges

This is Part 2 in the Replacing the AWS ELB series. Replacing the AWS ELB - The Problem Replacing the AWS ELB - The Challenges(this post) Replacing the AWS ELB - The Design Replacing the AWS ELB - The …

  •  haproxy
  • Automation
  •  ELB
  • Architecture
3 min read

Replacing the AWS ELB - The Network Deep Dive

This is Part 4 in the Replacing the AWS ELB series. Replacing the AWS ELB - The Problem Replacing the AWS ELB - The Challenges Replacing the AWS ELB - The Design Replacing the AWS ELB - The Network …

  •  haproxy
  • Automation
  •  ELB
  •  loadbalancer
3 min read

Replacing the AWS ELB - The Problem

This topic has been long overdue. This will be a series of posts on how you can replace the AWS ELB’s inside your VPC’s with a self managed load balancing solution. This will be too long for a single …

  •  haproxy
  • ELB
  • loadbalancer
  • Architecture
3 min read

A Triangle is Not a Circle & Some Things Don’t Fit in the Cloud

We all started off as babies, and I am sure that not many of you remember that one of the first toys you played with (and if you do not remember - then I am sure those of you with kids have probably …

  • Design
  • Architecture
  • Miscellaneous
  • Cloud
4 min read

Getting Hit by a Boat - Defensive Design

In a group discussion last week – I heard a story (I could not find the origin – if you know where it comes from – please let me know) – which I would like to share with you. John was floating out in …

  • Design
  • Architecture
  • culture
  • Learning