Most organisations that suffered a serious cloud outage in the past two years had a disaster recovery plan. The CrowdStrike incident of July 2024 took down roughly 25% of the Fortune 500 simultaneously, causing an estimated $5.4 billion in direct…
AWS VPC Lattice solves a genuine enterprise problem: service-to-service communication across VPCs and accounts without the CIDR overlap headaches, security group sprawl, or sidecar overhead of a full service mesh. The architecture is elegant on paper. Getting it to work…
It has been a busy week across the major clouds, with announcements spanning AI agent infrastructure, Kubernetes performance, database architecture, and a heavyweight statement of intent from Microsoft on the European market. Underneath the noise, there is a clear theme:…
The number that should make you pause is 22%. That is the proportion of engineering leaders and developers who scored in the critical burnout range when LeadDev surveyed 617 practitioners using the Maslach Burnout Inventory for their 2025 Engineering Leadership…
An organisation transferring 100TB of data between cloud providers each month is paying somewhere between £80,000 and £115,000 in egress charges annually, and that is before accounting for the cost of the network engineers debugging BGP flaps at 2am, the…
The Azure Portal’s Policy compliance blade was built for interactive investigation, not estate-wide reporting. It binds to a single scope per view, re-queries on every click, and offers no cross-management-group roll-up. For teams managing dozens or hundreds of subscriptions, it…
AZ-104 appears in more UK cloud job specifications than any other Microsoft certification, yet the majority of candidates who fail do so not because the material is beyond them but because they prepared for the wrong exam. They revised as…
