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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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31 from 19 Apr 2024 to 26 Oct 2026
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2026 26

  1. AWS Killed rain. I'm Keeping It Going.
  2. The system mostly worked
  3. The phpocalypse is the second biggest story today
  4. WWLD #3: Email has observability
  5. WWLD #2: Cloudflare is DNS
  6. WWLD #1: Domains and gas station hotdogs
  7. Anthropic's Google Docs killer is almost here
  8. Introducing ASU
  9. The Book Ran Away From the Library
  10. Merged at the Speed of AI
  11. S3 still isn't a file system. S3 Files is.
  12. Your Availability Zone Isn't Highly Available. And Your Region Might Not Be Either.
  13. Stop trying to fail over from Cloudflare
  14. Zero trust has a database-shaped blind spot
  15. I Thought I'd Left This Craft Behind
  16. I Spent an Afternoon Arguing with Three AI Image Generators About Turnstiles
  17. The Tent, the Bird, and the Statistical Machine
  18. Cloudflare, after making billions blocking bots, just gave everyone a web crawler.
  19. License Laundering and the Death of Clean Room
  20. Shipping Quality Software in Hostile Environments
  21. Good Hygiene Starts on Day One, Not When You're Ready to Ship
  22. The AI field guide for people with real jobs
  23. A Mandate Without Accountability Is an Elegant Form of Suicide
  24. Who opened the door?
  25. The $0 bill Vercel doesn't want you to see
  26. 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.