AWS Engineer Goes Azure: How I Built a Production DR Environment Without Losing My Mind
1d ago · 11 min read · I've been working with AWS for a few years now. EC2, ALB, ECR, Route53, VPCs — that's my native terrain. I know how they're wired together, I know the IAM quirks, I know which error messages to Google
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Architecting Disaster Recovery: Why Dedicated Servers Beat Shared Infrastructure 🛠️
1d ago · 2 min read · Downtime is not just a technical error; it is a critical business failure. According to IBM’s 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.88 million, with re
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Cross-Region RDS Disaster Recovery: Production Failover Architecture
Mar 3 · 4 min read · 1. Overview This post documents how I designed and implemented cross-region disaster recovery for a production MySQL database running on Amazon RDS. The requirement was straightforward: If the primary region (ap-south-1) becomes unavailable, the data...
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Schrödinger's DR Site: Testing Would Kill It
Feb 19 · 4 min read · You have a disaster recovery site. It cost a lot to build. It runs 24/7 (at least the critical parts, data backups). Your audit reports say: DR: Compliant. But you’ve never tested it. Because testing would break it. The dream that wakes you up at 4:4...
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Your DR Site Has a Problem: It Trusts the Same People
Feb 16 · 6 min read · We spend ziljardians on disaster recovery sites. Secondary regions. Backup systems. Failover procedures. RTO measured in minutes. And then someone with a compromised Global Admin account deletes everything. In both regions. Why? Because your DR site ...
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Global Load Balancing and DNS-based Routing
Feb 13 · 11 min read · The challenge of maintaining high availability and low latency at a global scale is one of the most significant hurdles in modern software architecture. When a service grows beyond a single data center, the complexity of directing users to the correc...
Join discussionDR Planning in 2026: Should You Restore Your Technical Debt?
Feb 13 · 6 min read · I had a boring moment a couple of months ago and I realized that one can now export the entire Azure environment to Infrastructure as Code. So I created a tool using OpenAI, Bicep and Azure DevOps, to read all resource JSONs from the portal, export a...
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