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I gave Claude the same two prompts, only one wrote tests!
You have probably given Claude Code a go by now, maybe you have gone all in or maybe you are still poking around. For your hobby project…
AI, Cloud and the business behind it.
Writing on how to design systems that hold up, what they really cost, and how to make the case for them. Plus the calculators, checklists and explainers I use to work through these decisions.
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Cloud vs on-prem TCO
Compare the total cost of running on your own hardware against the cloud, and find the break-even point.
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How a load balancer handles failure
Watch requests flow through a load balancer, then take an instance down or trigger a traffic spike.
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Production readiness review
Before a new service takes real traffic, walk through what keeps it running, what tells you when it isn't, and what you do next.
OpenDecision guide
Should this workload move to the cloud?
A few honest questions about a specific workload, ending in a recommendation you can take into a planning meeting.
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How We Took Claude Code Adoption From 1% to >92% Across 150 Engineers
Like many organisations today, we were looking at AI as a way to accelerate our business: meaning faster delivery, more capacity and less…
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The Hidden AWS Lambda Hack: 8x Faster Code for 5% Lower Cost
If your AWS Lambda feels slow or unexpectedly expensive, the culprit might not be your code, it could be your memory setting!
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Disaster Recovery for Start-ups in AWS
The first time an enterprise customer asks ‘What is your disaster recovery plan?’ in a security questionnaire, most start-up founders…
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Giving Blood, Eating Elk, and Marketing AI
Yesterday while giving blood, I fainted during the third sample — definitely not my proudest moment of 2025... The next morning when I was…