The Cloud Playbook
Amrut PatilPlaybooks for engineering leaders running multitenant SaaS on AWS who choose predictability over speed: boringly reliable services, controlled cloud spend, and audit-ready compliance.
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TCP #129: The scoring framework that picks ECS, EKS, or Lambda.
A weighted decision matrix across team maturity, operations, compliance, cost, and ownership with worked examples.
Most AWS compute decisions are made in a conference room. Two engineers argue for their preferred option. A staff engineer s...
TCP #128: ECS, EKS, and Lambda are not the same decision
Most engineering teams treat the choice of AWS compute as a matter of preference.
Lambda for the team that wants serverless.
ECS for the team that prefers containers.
EKS for the team that wants Kubernetes.
The conversation runs for...
TCP #127: The ADR template that turns architecture into a written contract
Architecture Decision Records are not new.
The format has been documented for over a decade. Most engineering organizations have adopted it. Most engineering organizations also continue to ship architectures that look fine on day one and...
TCP #126: Architecture decisions are risk decisions. Most teams forget that.
How to evaluate AWS architecture choices on what they cost you in 18 months, not what they save you this sprint.
Every AWS architecture decision is made under deadline pressure. The product team needs the feature. The team picks the design...
TCP #125: The MBR template that changes how leadership funds platform.
Platform engineering leaders send monthly updates. Leadership reads them. Nothing changes.
The headcount conversation in the next planning cycle plays out the same way it did the previous quarter. The roadmap discussion still treats the pl...
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