The Blueprint: The Film That Closes the Principles Arc
The last room of the principles arc. The biggest cost decisions are not line items you trim later, they are baked into the shape of the architecture, and they point two ways.
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The Promise and the Shelf: Two Short Films on Spending Less
The cost movement continues. The Promise is how you pay less for the load you can count on. The Shelf is how you pay less for what you store, and the bet hidden in every cheaper shelf.
The Ballroom: The Film That Opens the Cost Movement
The cost movement of Learning Maps opens. The Ballroom is the core flip of the whole cloud: you stop owning capacity for your peak and start renting it for your need.
AWS Is Math, Kubernetes Is Physics: A Symphony of Systems
AWS versus Kubernetes is the wrong question. AWS is math and Kubernetes is physics: two ends of one spectrum, the galaxy and the atom. AWS gives you grand scale but you watch the cost; containers run nearly free but you watch the performance. Here is when to use each, when to use both, and why they become a symphony of systems together.