How I Built a Multi-App OTA Update System (And Cut Costs from $199/month to $0)
Mar 1 · 10 min read · Expo's EAS Update service costs \(199/month for 50,000 monthly active users. If you have multiple apps or are a solo dev with modest traffic, that's expensive, even the \)19/month tier only covers 3,0
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How Engineering Teams Waste 30% of Their AWS Budget — And How to Fix It
Feb 23 · 5 min read · The cloud was supposed to make infrastructure efficient. Instead, for many engineering teams, AWS has quietly become one of the largest and least controlled line items in the company’s budget. And her
Join discussionStop Paying for Idle Containers
Feb 21 · 2 min read · TL;DR: Most container hosting bills include 76% waste from idle time. Pause-capable hosting cuts this dramatically. Business hours only = 72% savings. On-demand = 80%+. Most container hosting bills include significant charges for containers that are...
Join discussionAWS S3 + CloudFront Cost Optimization: Simple Guide + Terraform Hands-On
Feb 12 · 3 min read · Learn how to optimize static website costs and deploy S3 + CloudFront with Terraform Why S3 + CloudFront? S3 + CloudFront is one of the simplest ways to host a fast, secure static website on AWS.S3 stores your files, and CloudFront distributes them g...
Join discussionAWS Lambda Cost Optimization: Simple Guide + Terraform Hands-On
Feb 4 · 3 min read · Learn how to optimize Lambda costs and deploy your first function with Terraform Why AWS Lambda? AWS Lambda lets you run code without managing servers. You pay only for requests and execution time. It's ideal when your traffic is unpredictable or ev...
Join discussionThe Cloud Bill That Started a FinOps Journey
Feb 3 · 3 min read · Raj was proud of his team. They had migrated 70% of their workloads to Azure. Delivery velocity was up. Incidents were down. The board was happy. Then the cloud bill arrived. It wasn’t wrong. It was unexpected. Finance asked,“Why did our cloud spend ...
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Amazon S3 for DevOps Engineers: The Essential Storage Service Explained
Feb 1 · 12 min read · Introduction As a DevOps engineer, you deal with data constantly. Docker images, build artifacts, Terraform state files, application logs, database backups, static websites - the list goes on. You need somewhere reliable to store all of this, and you...
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Mastering AWS EC2: A Comprehensive Guide for DevOps Engineers
Jan 30 · 15 min read · Overview Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is AWS's foundational compute service that provides resizable virtual servers in the cloud. As a DevOps engineer, EC2 is often your first hands-on experience with AWS, and understanding it deeply is crucial...
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