Cloud storage
Practical writing on cloud providers, infrastructure, deployment and cost, from the team behind the BuyCloudExpress catalogue.
BigQuery for people who have never used a data warehouse
BigQuery behaves unlike the databases most developers already know. Understanding why it is fast, and what makes it expensive, takes about ten minutes and saves a…
Oracle Autonomous Database, in plain language
Autonomous Database automates the work a database administrator would otherwise do. Knowing which parts it automates, and which it does not, tells you whether it replaces…
MaxIOPS explained: what UpCloud’s storage actually does
Storage performance is the most commonly misdiagnosed bottleneck on a virtual server. Here is what IOPS and latency actually mean, and when storage is genuinely your…
Backups and snapshots are not the same thing
Snapshots protect against infrastructure failure. Backups protect against everything else, including you. Confusing them is how organisations discover they had neither.
Object storage or block storage: which one you actually need
They both store bytes and are not substitutes. Choosing the wrong one produces either an expensive workaround or an architecture that will not scale.