Cloud egress costs arrive as a billing surprise. They appear across dozens of line items that nobody owns, growing steadily month over month in a way that makes attribution difficult and root cause harder to establish. The standard response is…
Catchpoint’s SRE Report 2025, now in its seventh year of tracking the profession, reported something unexpected: operational toil rose for the first time in five years. Median toil time across 301 site reliability practitioners climbed from 25% to 30% of…
CDN deployment is the most common first response to a slow application. Point a CNAME at a vendor, watch the dashboard metrics improve, and close the performance ticket. For a while it works, because a CDN helps with the fraction…
Cloud-mature organisations learn this slowly. The IaC pipeline runs cleanly, the resource exists, the deployment succeeds, and everyone moves on to the next sprint. What does not move with them is the operational context: who knows how this service behaves…
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…
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…
Unplanned cloud downtime costs UK enterprises an average of £4,700 per minute, yet the majority of organisations running in the cloud today have never successfully tested their recovery procedures under realistic conditions. The number is striking not because outages are…
Cloud providers are offering up to 91% off on-demand compute prices, and most engineering teams are leaving that money on the table. Not because they lack awareness (Spot Instances, Azure Spot VMs, and GCP Spot VMs are well-publicised), but because…
Most architects treat UK data residency as a location question. The ICO, the FCA, and the NCSC do not. UK GDPR contains no requirement to store data on British soil. The FCA’s PS21/3 operational resilience regime does not mandate UK-only…
Ask any platform engineer who has completed a Terraform to OpenTofu migration how long it took, and you will hear two answers. The first: “About ten minutes to swap the binary and run tofu init.” The second, usually delivered with…
