CS Infostructure Library
Understand the question before choosing the answer.
Clear explanations of cloud infrastructure questions, choices and consequences. Written to be useful whether or not you ever need our help.
Independent value first.These articles exist to help you understand, assess and question cloud infrastructure—not to hide a sales pitch behind an answer.
Perspectives
Start with what you observe.
Shorter explorations of questions that do not always look like infrastructure questions at first.
Performance and geography
Could poor regional conversion have a technical cause?
Why commercial performance and technical performance can sometimes be connected.
Read the perspective →Cost and value
When is a cloud environment actually too expensive?
Cost only makes sense in relation to what the environment needs to achieve.
Read the perspective →Performance
What does “the application is slow” actually tell you?
Performance depends on who experiences it, from where, and what they are trying to do.
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