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Modern cloud architecture patterns, migration strategies, cost optimisation and infrastructure best practices.
Sovereign Cloud: What UK Enterprises Actually Need to Ask — MNB Technology
Sovereign cloud is marketed as a checkbox. For UK enterprises it is a set of specific, answerable questions about data location, access, and control.
Read article →Designing for a Single-Region Outage That Will Happen — MNB Technology
Not a hypothetical disaster-recovery exercise: a practical architecture approach for the regional outage your provider will eventually have, and why most DR plans fail quietly.
Read article →Serverless Cold Starts Are a Design Problem, Not a Platform Limitation — MNB Technology
Blaming the platform for cold start latency misses that most cold start pain comes from avoidable design choices, not an inherent serverless limitation.
Read article →Multi-Cloud Exit-Cost Modelling Before You Migrate — MNB Technology
Model the true cost of leaving a cloud platform before you commit to it, not after. A practical framework for exit-cost modelling that most migration plans skip entirely.
Read article →The Landing-Zone Decision Nobody Documents (and What It Costs Later) — MNB Technology
The landing-zone choices made in week one of a cloud programme are rarely written down, and they are exactly the ones that become impossible to reverse by year three.
Read article →Kubernetes Isn't the Platform, It's the Kernel — MNB Technology
Teams that treat raw Kubernetes as a developer platform recreate the same painful gaps every time. Kubernetes is the kernel; the platform is what you build on it.
Read article →The Hidden Cost of Cross-Region Data Transfer — MNB Technology
Architectures that look clean on a diagram often hide a cross-region data transfer bill that only shows up once the system is at real scale.
Read article →FinOps as an Engineering Discipline, Not a Monthly Report — MNB Technology
FinOps fails when it lives only in a monthly spreadsheet owned by finance. Here is how to make cost a first-class engineering signal instead.
Read article →The Repatriation Decision: When Leaving the Cloud Actually Makes Sense — MNB Technology
Cloud repatriation is not an anti-cloud statement. It is a legitimate decision for a narrow, specific set of workloads. Here is how to identify them honestly.
Read article →Why 'Cloud-Native' Teams Still Over-Provision — MNB Technology
Elastic infrastructure was supposed to end over-provisioning. Here is why mature cloud-native teams still do it, and the three specific habits that cause it.
Read article →The Real Reason Cloud Migrations Stall at 80% — MNB Technology
Most cloud migrations move quickly through the easy workloads and then stall. The reason is rarely technical. Here is what actually gets them unstuck.
Read article →Apache Flink on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE): Architecture for Apache Iceberg Streaming — MNB Tech
Rigorous GKE architecture for Apache Flink and Apache Iceberg streaming: state backends, scaling, design steps, and comparisons with Spark and Beam, plus ops trade-offs.
Read article →Apache Iceberg: Streaming Options — MNB Tech
The five best Apache Iceberg streaming options, ranked. Clear architectures, trade-offs, and implementation guidance for enterprise-scale streaming.
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