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Guides, tutorials, and comparisons to help you build better backend applications.
How applications run in production, from virtual machines to managed platforms.
Plan the move to AWS, transfer applications and data, and prepare for cutover.
Compare eight platforms for hosting web applications, APIs, and background workers.
Tools for testing, infrastructure, configuration, deployment, security, and monitoring.
How BYOC compares with hosted SaaS on ease of use, security, cost, and control of your cloud account.
The steps from building an application to running it in the cloud.
What providers manage, how much support you get, and which infrastructure tasks can be automated.
Compare AWS Control Tower, Encore, Azure Arc, IBM Cloudability, and HPE Morpheus.
Choose a migration approach for each workload and plan the move to production.
Compare the tools used to deploy, update, and run containers in production.
How containers and VMs differ in isolation, resource use, and maintenance.
Compare pipeline tools, Kubernetes GitOps, and managed application deployments.