Hybrid Cloud architecture without the marketing speak.
Every cloud vendor will tell you their platform is the answer. This series asks a different question: what problem are you actually trying to solve?
Practical decisions, real tradeoffs, and honest takes on when managed services make sense and when they create lock-in you’ll regret.
The Story Back in Article 1, I said we’d get back to this: once you’ve decided what goes in the cloud and who manages it, there’s a third question that decides whether any of it actually works — how does your data get there? A telecom customer I worked with was pushing sustained real-time Kafka streams past 850 Mbps between on-prem and the cloud, with big unpredictable spikes on top, over an AWS Site-to-Site VPN. A single tunnel is rated up to 1.25 Gbps. On paper they had headroom. ...
Managed Services vs Self-Hosted: When to Hand Over the Keys ☁ Cloud Without the Chaos — Article 02 You’ve placed the workload in the cloud. That decision is done. Now comes the one nobody gives you a clean framework for: do you run the infrastructure yourself, or do you hand the keys to a managed service? I worked with a customer who answered this the hard way — twice. Once on their own platform, and once after they’d already made the switch. Both incidents involved the same underlying failure mode. Neither one turned out the way anyone in the room expected. ...
☁ Cloud Without the Chaos — Article 01 · ⏱ 10 min read ☁ Byte Size Summary Hybrid cloud isn’t a strategy — it’s the outcome of real architectural decisions Most teams default to cloud or on-prem for the wrong reasons (inertia, not intent) Five dimensions drive every defensible placement decision: latency, data sovereignty, cost profile, operational ownership, and blast radius A reusable decision framework for evaluating any workload — run it before the migration starts, not after Network design thinking from logistics applies directly to hybrid cloud architecture — and most platform engineers have never seen it framed this way I spent a few years working in supply chain and logistics before I ended up in cloud infrastructure. One of the first things you learn in that world is that the network is never fully yours. ...