Best of Cloud — July 2025

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    Avatar of awsfundamentalsAWS Fundamentals·46w

    How to Get Started with AWS in 2025

    A comprehensive guide covering AWS account setup, security configuration, and best practices for beginners. Covers creating AWS accounts, setting up multi-factor authentication, creating IAM users, configuring billing alerts, installing AWS CLI, and implementing security measures. Also introduces Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and AWS CDK, AWS Organizations for multi-account management, and helpful tools for cloud development workflow.

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    Avatar of descopeDescope·46w

    What is Multi-Tenancy and How Does It Work?

    Multi-tenancy is an architectural model where a single application serves multiple discrete user groups (tenants) with shared infrastructure but logically separated data and configurations. The guide covers three main models: single-tenant (dedicated resources, highest isolation, most expensive), multi-tenant (shared resources, lowest cost, potential performance impacts), and hybrid (mixed approach balancing cost and isolation). Key considerations include regulatory compliance requirements, performance expectations, security implications like cross-tenant data leakage, and database design patterns ranging from shared schemas to separate databases. The choice depends on factors like compliance needs, performance requirements, operational overhead, and growth potential.

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    Avatar of dhhDavid Heinemeier Hansson·45w

    The 6 Hours of Lex

    DHH appeared on Lex Fridman's podcast for a six-hour conversation covering various topics including Ruby programming language, AI's future, small teams, cloud migration decisions, and personal subjects like fatherhood and money. The discussion was extensively prepared with detailed notes and timestamps for easy navigation.

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    Avatar of hnHacker News·43w

    The Future is NOT Self-Hosted

    Self-hosting offers digital independence by running personal cloud services at home, but it's technically complex and creates isolated systems that lack the convenience of shared cloud services. The author argues for community-hosted infrastructure instead - publicly funded, encrypted cloud services that combine the benefits of cloud computing with user ownership and privacy. This approach would provide accessible digital services through libraries or cooperatives, avoiding both corporate control and the inefficiency of individual self-hosting setups.

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    Avatar of detlifeData Engineer Things·46w

    The Ultimate Roadmap to Become a Data Engineer in 2025 (With Free Resources)

    A comprehensive guide for becoming a data engineer in 2025, covering essential skills like SQL, Python, and data modeling, along with big data technologies like Apache Spark and cloud platforms. The roadmap emphasizes free learning resources and practical experience, highlighting that mastering core principles enables quick adaptation to new tools in the rapidly evolving data engineering landscape.

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    Avatar of communityCommunity Picks·46w

    crossplane/crossplane: The Cloud Native Control Plane

    Crossplane is an open-source framework for building cloud native control planes without writing code. It provides an extensible backend for orchestrating applications and infrastructure across different environments, with a configurable frontend offering declarative APIs. As a CNCF project, it enables infrastructure management through Kubernetes-style resources and supports multiple cloud providers through its provider ecosystem.

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    Avatar of freecodecampfreeCodeCamp·45w

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating an AWS Free Tier Account

    A comprehensive walkthrough for creating an AWS Free Tier account, covering the complete signup process from email verification to payment setup. Includes practical troubleshooting tips for common issues like payment verification failures, SMS problems, and card rejections, with specific solutions for users in Nigeria using virtual dollar cards.

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    Avatar of techcentralTechCentral·45w

    Larry Ellison, 80, is now world’s second richest person

    Larry Ellison has become the world's second-richest person with a net worth of $251.2 billion, driven by Oracle's stock surge amid the AI boom. Oracle's shares have nearly tripled since ChatGPT's release, gaining over 90% in three months due to strong revenue growth and major cloud computing contracts with companies like OpenAI. The company is developing gigawatts of data center capacity and has secured partnerships through initiatives like Stargate with SoftBank Group.

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    Avatar of programmersarealsohumanProgrammers are also human·45w

    Senior DevOps engineer

    A humorous and satirical take on the daily struggles of senior DevOps engineers, highlighting common pain points like unreliable cloud infrastructure, complex monitoring systems, infrastructure-as-code challenges, multi-region deployments, and the gap between development practices and operational reality. The piece touches on familiar DevOps frustrations including Terraform unpredictability, monitoring alert fatigue, dependency management, and the complexity of modern CI/CD pipelines.

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    Avatar of freecodecampfreeCodeCamp·44w

    VPS vs PaaS: How to Choose a Hosting Solution

    VPS (Virtual Private Server) offers full control and customization with dedicated resources, requiring manual setup and maintenance but providing flexibility for experienced developers. PaaS (Platform as a Service) abstracts infrastructure management, enabling rapid deployment and automatic scaling through Git integration, ideal for teams focused on coding rather than server administration. VPS suits projects needing specific configurations or consistent performance, while PaaS works better for applications with variable traffic and teams prioritizing development speed over infrastructure control.

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    Avatar of programmersarealsohumanProgrammers are also human·44w

    Cloud Architects in 2025

    A humorous take on the realities of cloud architecture in 2025, highlighting common pain points including Kubernetes complexity, escalating cloud costs, observability challenges, and the irony of supposed cost savings. The piece satirizes how modern cloud infrastructure often creates more problems than it solves, with bills in scientific notation and teams needed just to manage the cost-saving tools.

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    Avatar of programmersarealsohumanProgrammers are also human·44w

    Interview with Senior DevOps engineer

    A satirical take on modern DevOps practices highlighting common frustrations including infrastructure complexity, cloud vendor costs, deployment challenges, and the gap between DevOps ideals and reality. The piece humorously critiques issues like Terraform complexity, DNS problems, monitoring overhead, security challenges, and the proliferation of tools that were supposed to simplify operations.

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