Articles
Notes on cloud architecture, DevOps practice, and building reliable systems.
Migrating a Production Workload from AWS to Alibaba Cloud: Lessons Learned
The service-by-service mapping, the parts of the migration that went smoothly, and the three assumptions that turned out wrong.
Monitoring and Observability on Alibaba Cloud with CloudMonitor and ARMS
Setting up alarms that catch real incidents instead of paging on noise — CloudMonitor for infrastructure, ARMS for application-level tracing.
Object Storage Service (OSS) Patterns Every Alibaba Cloud Team Should Know
Lifecycle rules, signed URLs, and cross-region replication on OSS — the patterns that turn a bucket into a properly managed storage layer.
Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization: Where Alibaba Cloud Fits Next to AWS, Azure, and GCP
A practical comparison of compute, storage, and egress pricing across four providers, and the specific workloads where Alibaba Cloud changes the economics.
Kubernetes on Alibaba Cloud: ACK vs. Self-Managed, and When to Choose Which
Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) removes most of the control-plane burden AWS/Azure teams are used to — here's when that trade is worth it, and when it isn't.
Building a CI/CD Pipeline to Alibaba Cloud with GitHub Actions
A working GitHub Actions pipeline that builds a container, pushes it to Alibaba Cloud Container Registry, and deploys to ACK — with the RAM permissions to make it safe.
Terraform on Alibaba Cloud: Infrastructure as Code with the Alicloud Provider
How the official Terraform alicloud provider compares to AWS/Azure workflows, and a working module for a VPC + ECS + SLB stack.
Getting Started with Alibaba Cloud ECS: A DevOps Engineer's Setup Guide
A practical walkthrough for standing up a production-ready Elastic Compute Service instance on Alibaba Cloud, from region choice to hardened access.