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Guides, analysis, and opinions on leaving the cloud.

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The Cloud Exit Playbook

A step-by-step guide to leaving AWS, GCP, or Azure. Covers when to exit, how to calculate savings, architecture planning, migration strategies, monitoring setup, and common pitfalls.

The Cloud Exit Playbook

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Cost Analysis

The Real Cost of RDS: Why Managed PostgreSQL Is 5x Overpriced

We break down what you're actually paying for when you use Amazon RDS — and what the same setup costs on bare-metal.

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Migration

Cassandra on Bare-Metal: Time-Series Storage at 10% of Cloud Cost

How we deploy multi-terabyte Cassandra clusters with TWCS compaction, and why cloud-managed alternatives can't compete on price.

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Comparison

HAProxy vs. AWS ALB: Performance, Cost, and Why We Switched

A head-to-head comparison of cloud load balancers vs. self-hosted HAProxy with Keepalived failover.

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Automation

Ansible + AI: How We Deploy 20-Server Clusters in Days

Our AI-powered deployment pipeline generates Ansible configurations, validates them, and deploys entire clusters in days instead of months.

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Guide

The Cloud Exit Checklist: 15 Things to Evaluate

Before you commit to a migration, here's everything you need to check — from workload patterns to compliance requirements.

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Comparison

MongoDB Atlas vs. Percona on Bare-Metal

Feature-for-feature comparison. Encryption at rest, audit logging, backups — all included free with Percona. Not so on Atlas.

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Opinion

Why Your Cloud Bill Will Never Go Down

Cloud pricing is designed to scale with you. Here's why "optimization" is a treadmill, and ownership is the exit.

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Guide

Monitoring Without Datadog: $0/month Observability

Prometheus + Grafana + Loki + Alertmanager. Unlimited metrics, unlimited logs, unlimited dashboards. Here's how we build it.

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