Developer Workflows
How GitHub Actions and GitLab CI structure a deployment pipeline, how to authenticate to Google Cloud, Azure, and Vultr without long lived keys, common deploy targets, and the guard rails that keep releases safe.
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Developer Workflows
How to build a staging environment on Linode, UpCloud, or AWS that matches production, isolate it with separate accounts or networks, handle test data safely, and keep non production cost under control.
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Developer Workflows
AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Run functions, and Azure Functions compared on triggers, packaging, hosting options, identity, and billing, with clear guidance on when functions fit and when containers are better.
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Developer Workflows
How to choose a cloud GPU for training, fine tuning, or inference, what Vultr Cloud GPU, EC2 GPU families, Google Cloud accelerators, and OCI GPU shapes offer, and how quotas and cost control work.
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Developer Workflows
What Amazon Bedrock includes, how to enable model access, why region choice and cross region inference profiles matter, how RPM and TPM quotas work, and how to make a first Converse API call safely.
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Business & Startups
How to choose a cloud provider for a business: start from your workloads, answer seven deciding questions, compare Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and OVHcloud profiles, score a shortlist, and run a short evaluation.
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Business & Startups
How labs, students, and funded projects can use Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, and Linode well: matching bursty workloads to services, managing grant budgets, keeping analyses reproducible, sharing data, and offboarding.
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Business & Startups
Should a SaaS run on a VPS provider like DigitalOcean or UpCloud, or on a hyperscaler like AWS? The deciding factors, a reference architecture for each, and how to keep a later migration cheap.
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Business & Startups
A step-by-step guide to business email on Google Workspace: verifying the domain, creating users and groups, adding MX, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records, and the Admin console settings to review once mail is flowing.
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Business & Startups
What to review in the first session on an inherited cloud account: securing the owner identity, enabling MFA, inventorying every region, rotating keys, reviewing IAM, setting budgets, checking quotas, and reading the provider's terms.
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Business & Startups
A three-layer backup strategy for cloud servers: provider snapshots for fast rebuilds, application-level dumps in S3-compatible object storage, an off-site copy at a second provider, and a retention policy you can afford.
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Security Basics
Harden a Linux VPS on DigitalOcean, Hetzner, or BinaryLane with a provider firewall and ufw, key only SSH, Fail2ban jails for public services, and unattended security updates that keep packages patched.
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