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Adventures in cloud architecture. Click to read The Chaos Guru, by Luka Kladarić, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Distributed systems / cloudDevOps / SRE / infrastructureSecurityAI / ML

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32 from 19 Apr 2024 to 3 Nov 2026
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2026 27

  1. The Model Has No Arms and Legs
  2. AWS Killed rain. I'm Keeping It Going.
  3. The system mostly worked
  4. The phpocalypse is the second biggest story today
  5. WWLD #3: Email has observability
  6. WWLD #2: Cloudflare is DNS
  7. WWLD #1: Domains and gas station hotdogs
  8. Anthropic's Google Docs killer is almost here
  9. Introducing ASU
  10. The Book Ran Away From the Library
  11. Merged at the Speed of AI
  12. S3 still isn't a file system. S3 Files is.
  13. Your Availability Zone Isn't Highly Available. And Your Region Might Not Be Either.
  14. Stop trying to fail over from Cloudflare
  15. Zero trust has a database-shaped blind spot
  16. I Thought I'd Left This Craft Behind
  17. I Spent an Afternoon Arguing with Three AI Image Generators About Turnstiles
  18. The Tent, the Bird, and the Statistical Machine
  19. Cloudflare, after making billions blocking bots, just gave everyone a web crawler.
  20. License Laundering and the Death of Clean Room
  21. Shipping Quality Software in Hostile Environments
  22. Good Hygiene Starts on Day One, Not When You're Ready to Ship
  23. The AI field guide for people with real jobs
  24. A Mandate Without Accountability Is an Elegant Form of Suicide
  25. Who opened the door?
  26. The $0 bill Vercel doesn't want you to see
  27. Introducing aws-config-d

2025 1

  1. I can't help you with Looker

2024 4

  1. No more free on-call and incident response
  2. AWS Billing of Failed Requests to S3
  3. The Platform is Dead; Long Live the Platform
  4. Dear Radisson. We need to talk.