The Well-Architected Mind
A working architect's tour of the AWS design decisions that are expensive to reverse, and how to recognize them before you commit.
Principal Cloud Architect
Nadia has spent twelve years designing multi-region control planes for payments and healthcare workloads. She writes about the failure modes that only appear at the seams between managed services.
4 titles · 1,420 pages in print
A working architect's tour of the AWS design decisions that are expensive to reverse, and how to recognize them before you commit.
With Sam Okonkwo
An honest accounting of what serverless costs you in exchange for what it saves, and how to tell which side you are on.
Exactly what each AWS messaging primitive guarantees, and how to build systems whose correctness does not depend on hope.
With Aaron Whitfield
Certification preparation built on real architectural reasoning, so the knowledge survives the exam by more than a week.