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Aurora vs RDS PostgreSQL vs EC2: Costs, Performance & Multi-Region Compared (2025)
December 8, 2025
18 min read
by CertVanta Team

A brutally honest comparison of running PostgreSQL on Aurora, RDS, and EC2. We cover costs, performance, failover, global replicas, and all the tradeoffs AWS won't tell you in their marketing docs.

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From Terraform to GitOps: A Practical Migration Roadmap
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December 5, 2025
15 min read

A step-by-step guide to migrating from traditional Terraform workflows to GitOps, including migration patterns, common pitfalls, and practical diagrams to guide your journey.

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GitOps: Monorepo vs Polyrepo - A Practical Comparison
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October 12, 2025
12 min read

A straightforward comparison of monorepo and polyrepo approaches for GitOps implementations. Understand the advantages, disadvantages, and when to use each strategy for your infrastructure and application deployments.

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Multitenancy Done Right: Building Secure, Cost-Effective SaaS Applications
October 9, 2025
15 min read

A battle-tested guide to implementing multitenancy without losing sleep over data leaks or AWS bills. Learn database patterns, isolation strategies, and how AI changes the game — all from someone who's seen what happens when it goes wrong.

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Monorepo vs Polyrepo: Choosing the Right Repository Strategy for Your Microservices
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October 7, 2025
16 min read

A comprehensive guide to choosing between monorepo and polyrepo strategies when decomposing monoliths into microservices. Learn the trade-offs, implementation patterns, and real-world considerations that matter in production.

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Edge Computing Meets Edge Caching: Building Real-Time Applications at the Network Edge
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September 30, 2025
16 min read

Exploring how edge computing and caching converge to enable ultra-low latency applications. From personalized content delivery to A/B testing at the edge, learn how to architect systems that feel instantaneous regardless of user location.

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Building a Security Operations Center (SOC) That Actually Works: A Practical Guide for Modern Organizations
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September 18, 2025
12 min read

Learn how to build and operate an effective Security Operations Center (SOC) that strengthens your organization's security posture, ensures compliance, and scales with your business needs.

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From DevOps to DevSecOps: Why Security-First Pipelines Are Becoming Mandatory
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September 3, 2025
14 min read

Discover why organizations are rapidly adopting DevSecOps practices and how to implement security-first CI/CD pipelines that protect against modern threats while maintaining development velocity.

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Understanding JSON Formats: JSON, JSONL, NDJSON, and More
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September 1, 2025
8 min read

Explore different JSON formats including JSON Lines (JSONL), Newline Delimited JSON (NDJSON), and JSON Streams with practical examples and use cases.

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Paginated vs. Bulk API Calls: Performance, Cost, and Reliability Trade‑offs
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August 30, 2025
14 min read

Should you fetch many results at once or smaller batches at a time? A practical guide to the CPU, memory, network, and cloud-cost trade‑offs of paginated vs. one-shot API calls—with actionable rules of thumb.

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Release Engineering Playbook: Blue/Green, Canary, and Feature Rollouts
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August 30, 2025
16 min read

Master blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies. Learn how to integrate automated smoke tests, release gates, feature flags, and rollback techniques for safer, faster releases.

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Taming Toil: Eliminating Repetitive Work to Scale SRE Teams
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August 28, 2025
18 min read

Toil kills engineering velocity and burns out teams. Learn how to measure, reduce, and automate toil in SRE and DevOps environments — with actionable best practices, anti-patterns, and case studies.

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The Pragmatic SRE Guide to SLOs: From Business Goals to Error Budgets
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August 24, 2025
15 min read

Go beyond uptime percentages—learn how to map business goals into user-centric SLOs, define error budgets, and set up actionable alerting with real-world examples.

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Production-Grade Container Security: From Base Images to Runtime Controls
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August 21, 2025
15 min read

Containers make shipping code faster, but they also introduce hidden risks. Learn how to secure images, enforce policies, detect escapes, and monitor runtime behavior with modern tooling.

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Observability That Reduces Pager Fatigue
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August 18, 2025
13 min read

Stop drowning in alerts. Learn how to design effective observability strategies using golden signals, RED vs USE methods, smarter alerting practices, and persona-driven dashboards that reduce pager fatigue.

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Secure the Supply Chain: SBOMs, Provenance, and Sigstore in CI/CD
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August 16, 2025
16 min read

Protect your software supply chain in CI/CD pipelines with SBOMs, Sigstore, provenance checks, and policy enforcement. Learn practical strategies to mitigate dependency-based attacks.

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Real-Time Monitoring with eBPF: Low-Overhead Insights for Linux & K8s
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August 14, 2025
15 min read

eBPF is reshaping observability by enabling low-overhead, high-fidelity monitoring directly from the Linux kernel. Learn how it works, practical use cases, and tooling for real-time insights.

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Kubernetes Production Readiness Checklist
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August 12, 2025
14 min read

A practical checklist to ensure your Kubernetes clusters are production-ready. Covering security, reliability, operational safeguards, observability, and common pitfalls every team should avoid.

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Terraform at Scale: Module Design, State Strategies, and Drift Detection
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August 11, 2025
17 min read

Scaling Terraform across teams and environments is challenging. Learn how to design reusable modules, manage state effectively, detect drift early, and integrate Terraform into CI/CD pipelines.

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Scaling Feature Flags Without Regrets: Governance, Drift, and Tech Debt
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August 9, 2025
14 min read

Learn how to manage feature flags at scale without introducing reliability issues or tech debt. Covers lifecycle management, observability, tooling, and governance strategies.

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Postmortem to Product: Turning Incidents into Roadmap & SLO Changes
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August 7, 2025
16 min read

Incidents are wasted if they don’t drive change. Learn how to run effective postmortems, convert findings into roadmap items, revisit SLOs, and improve reliability across teams.

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Secrets Management in 2025: Vault, KMS, and Sidecars Compared
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August 5, 2025
15 min read

A deep dive into modern secrets management strategies: Vault, KMS, and sidecar-based approaches. Learn best practices, avoid pitfalls, and secure your systems without sacrificing velocity.

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Multi-Region Architectures: Active-Active Without the Headaches
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August 3, 2025
17 min read

Designing multi-region architectures is hard. Learn practical strategies for active-active, database replication, global routing, and failover testing — with a real SaaS scaling case study.

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Incident Command for Startups
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July 31, 2025
12 min read

Even small teams need an incident response process. Learn how to set up lightweight incident command roles, handle outages smoothly, run blameless postmortems, and automate tooling for startups.

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CI/CD at Scale: Designing Fast, Flaky-Resistant Pipelines
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July 29, 2025
12 min read

Build CI/CD pipelines that scale. Learn how to design faster builds, reduce test flakiness, add security gates, and deploy confidently without slowing down engineering teams.

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Edge Compute with CDNs: Caching, Workers, and Safe Gradual Rollouts
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July 24, 2025
14 min read

Modern apps rely on edge compute and CDN workers for speed, personalization, and safe deployments. Learn practical strategies for caching, gradual rollouts, and real-world use cases.

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate (SAA-C03) — Complete Study Guide
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July 22, 2025
28 min read

Prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate (SAA-C03) exam with CertVanta's complete study guide. Includes a structured roadmap, exam breakdown, key AWS services, and recommended CertVanta resources.

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Database Reliability 101: Backups, PITR, and Disaster Recovery Drills
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July 17, 2025
15 min read

Learn how to design reliable database systems with backups, point-in-time recovery, and cross-region disaster recovery drills. Improve your RPO, RTO, and resilience strategies.

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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Complete Study Guide
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July 15, 2025
25 min read

Prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) exam with CertVanta's complete study guide. Includes a 4-week roadmap, hands-on projects, key services, practice tips, and recommended CertVanta resources.

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Chaos Engineering for Realists: Safe Experiments You Can Run This Quarter
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July 11, 2025
14 min read

Chaos engineering isn't about breaking production blindly. Learn safe, structured experiments you can run today to improve reliability, validate recovery plans, and strengthen SLOs.

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GitOps vs. ClickOps: Choosing the Right Deployment Workflow
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July 9, 2025
13 min read

Should you deploy using GitOps or ClickOps? Learn the trade-offs, best practices, and hybrid strategies to balance velocity, reliability, and auditability.

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Cost-Aware SRE: FinOps Practices Without Sacrificing Reliability
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July 5, 2025
14 min read

Learn how Site Reliability Engineers can balance cloud costs with reliability goals using FinOps strategies, autoscaling optimizations, and observability-driven insights.

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Building an On-Call Program People Don’t Dread
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July 3, 2025
15 min read

On-call shouldn’t mean burnout. Learn how to design humane schedules, reduce noisy alerts, create better runbooks, and build a blameless on-call culture engineers actually trust.

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