Cloud Engineering

Introduction Ask most engineering teams whether they have disaster recovery (DR) in place, and the answer is often confident: “Yes, we have backups.” This statement sounds reassuring — but it hides one of the most dangerous misconceptions in modern infrastructure. Backups are not disaster recovery. They are related, but they solve very different problems. Confusing […]

Introduction Most small to mid-sized organizations running Kubernetes follow a familiar pattern: Everything seems fine — until the database crashes. That’s when teams stop building features and start panic-driven repairs. This post is not about how to run databases on Kubernetes.It’s about asking a more important question: Are you solving the right problem by running