Cloud Insights for teams running production workloads

How-to/ 6 min read Sizing a GPU instance: what to put around the accelerator A GPU is only as fast as the CPU, memory and disk feeding it. How to size the rest of the instance so the accelerator is the bottleneck. Sep 2, 2026 Cost/ 6 min read Moving a training pipeline off a hyperscaler without stopping it You cannot pause research for a migration. A sequenced move that keeps runs going: data first, then one reproduced run, then a shadow period. Sep 2, 2026 Cost/ 5 min read What a training run actually costs The hourly rate is rarely more than half the bill. The five line items that make up the rest, and how to measure cost per completed run. Sep 2, 2026 How-to/ 6 min read Ingress, LoadBalancer or NodePort: exposing a service without guessing Three ways to get traffic into a Kubernetes cluster, what each one actually costs, and the decision rule that stops you paying for twelve load balancers. Aug 31, 2026 How-to/ 5 min read Upgrading a production Kubernetes cluster without downtime The pre-flight checks, the PodDisruptionBudgets that make a node drain safe, the upgrade order, and why there is no rollback for a control plane. Aug 31, 2026 How-to/ 5 min read Persistent volumes on managed Kubernetes: what to use for what Block, file and object storage in a cluster: which primitive fits which workload, the access-mode rules that surprise people, and the reclaim policy that deletes production data. Aug 31, 2026 Backup/ 5 min read RPO and RTO in plain numbers How to turn two abstract acronyms into a backup plan you can defend in a post-incident review, with the arithmetic that decides your architecture. Aug 23, 2026 Migration/ 5 min read From docker-compose to Kubernetes without wrecking your weekend A staged path from a working docker-compose stack to a production Kubernetes deployment, including the four things that always break. Aug 23, 2026 Cost/ 5 min read Leaving AWS: an exit plan for a mid-size workload A sequenced plan for moving a mid-size production workload off a hyperscaler, with the costs and gotchas that only show up halfway through. Aug 23, 2026 How-to/ 5 min read A working 3-2-1 backup setup with Veeam A concrete Veeam configuration implementing 3-2-1-1-0 against object storage with immutability, plus the retention arithmetic and the settings people get wrong. Aug 23, 2026