Cloud & DevOps

Every article filed under Cloud & DevOps.

·5 min read

A GitHub Actions Pipeline, With the Seconds Attached

A workflow that really runs, quoted as it is, with the per-step timings from a real run — where 84 seconds go, what caching buys, and the two lines that matter.

Cloud & DevOps
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Spring Boot Logging: JSON Is One Property, and the Guard You Still Need

Structured logs without a logback file or an extra dependency, MDC keys as real JSON fields, and a measurement correcting what you were told about placeholders.

Cloud & DevOps
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Spring Boot Actuator: Only One Endpoint Is On By Default

What Actuator actually exposes on a fresh application, why /actuator/info comes back empty, and the endpoint that changes a log level without a restart.

Cloud & DevOps
·9 min read

How to Run a Spring Boot App as a Linux Service (and How Small a Box It Needs)

The systemd unit file for a Spring Boot jar, the one line most of them are missing, and measured answers to how much memory the thing actually uses.

Cloud & DevOps
·12 min read

AWS Lambda vs EC2: Which Should Run Your Workload?

How AWS Lambda and EC2 differ in execution model, hard limits, scaling, cold starts and billing — plus a clear rule for choosing one for your workload.

Cloud & DevOps
·12 min read

What Is AWS IAM and How Does It Work?

Learn what AWS IAM is, the four identity types, how JSON policies are structured, and the exact deny-allow-deny logic AWS runs on every single API request.

Cloud & DevOps