Cloud Architecture, Explained Clearly
Cloud and Clear is written for engineers and architects who design, run and pay for cloud infrastructure in the real world. No vendor gloss, no recycled documentation: just practical guidance drawn from two decades of running hybrid cloud and datacentre platforms at enterprise scale.
You’ll find deep technical guides on Azure storage and Kubernetes, architecture thinking on cost, security and resilience, and honest writing about building a senior cloud career. Every Saturday, This Week in Cloud rounds up the news that actually matters, with analysis you won’t get from a press release.
New posts three to four times a week. Start with whatever problem is on your desk today.
- Feature Flag Debt: The Reliability Risk Nobody Audits
- Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture: Designing Global, Hybrid Deployments That Actually Hold Up at Scale
- Blue-Green Deployment’s Rollback Promise Ends at the Database
- This Week in Cloud: Native Vectors, One-Way Migration Roads and Backups That Won’t Budge
- Executive Presence for Engineers: The Skill That Actually Gets You to Principal
- Azure GPU Inference at Scale: A Cost Optimisation Framework by Workload Type
- Your Composite SLA Is Lower Than Any Number on the Vendor’s Page
- This Week in Cloud: Physical AI, AKS Fleet GA, and NAT64 Arrives
- Writing for Engineers Who Hate Writing: The Technical Writing Skills That Unlock £100K+ Principal Roles
