Tools
Things I use to work through architecture decisions. Everything runs in your browser; nothing you enter is sent anywhere.
Cloud vs on-prem TCO
Compare the total cost of running on your own hardware against the cloud, and find the break-even point.
Business cases · Cloud architecture
How a load balancer handles failure
Watch requests flow through a load balancer, then take an instance down or trigger a traffic spike.
Cloud architecture
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.
Cloud architecture
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.
Business cases · Cloud architecture
Tools come from the writing
Each one started as a question an article raised. Read the reasoning behind them.