The Cloud Engineer’s Playbook - A Podcast by Michael Diogo

Michael Diogo

🎙️ The Cloud Engineer’s Playbook Whether starting your cloud journey or levelling up your cloud and automation skills, The Cloud Engineer’s Playbook is your go-to resource. We dive into real-world cloud engineering strategies, industry insights, and hands-on guidance each week. Tune in, get inspired, and take your skills to the next level, one episode at a time.

  1. Disaster Recovery Strategies In The Cloud

    10H AGO

    Disaster Recovery Strategies In The Cloud

    It’s 2:00 a.m. your phone buzzes. Alerts are flooding in. The production database is down, your main region is unresponsive, and customers are already posting on social media. Panic? Not if you’ve prepared. In this gripping episode of The Cloud Engineer’s Playbook, Disaster Recovery in the Cloud : where milliseconds matter and preparation separates chaos from control. We’ll start with the basics: What exactly counts as a disaster? From accidental deletions and server crashes to regional outages and cyberattacks, you’ll learn how to identify and anticipate threats before they take your business offline. Then, we break down how to plan, design, and execute cloud recovery strategies that keep your systems and your sanity intact. In this episode, you’ll discover: The anatomy of a disaster and why it’s not always what you think. The difference between high availability, backup, and true disaster recovery. How to build a cloud architecture that can survive anything using multi-region deployments, automated failovers, and replication strategies. How to measure resilience with RPOs and RTOs, and why those two numbers could save your business. The importance of regularly testing and updating your DR plan before disaster tests it for you. This isn’t just a technical discussion it’s a playbook for survival in the unpredictable world of cloud computing. Need a team to migrate workloads to the cloud, secure your infrastructure, automate your processes, and train your team for optimal adoption, email: contact@diogomic.me to start your transformation today. Let’s make your operations and workloads more optimize and more secured.

    38 min
  2. Mastering Incident Postmortem

    3D AGO

    Mastering Incident Postmortem

    Incidents happen.They just do. As our systems grow in scale and complexity, failures are inevitable.  Incidents are also a learning opportunity. The best way to work through what happened during an incident and capture any lessons learned is by conducting an incident postmortem, also known as a post-incident review.  An incident postmortem brings people together to discuss the details of an incident: why it happened, its impact, what actions were taken to mitigate it and resolve it, and what should be done to prevent it from happening again. In this episode we took a deep dive into why it's neccesary and how to implement an incident postmortem. Need a team to migrate workloads to the cloud, secure your infrastructure, automate your processes, and train your team for optimal adoption, email: contact@diogomic.me to start your transformation today. Let’s make your operations and workloads more optimize and more secured.

    14 min
  3. Fast by Design: The Caching Effect

    SEP 23

    Fast by Design: The Caching Effect

    The farther users are from your servers, the slower their experience with your application. In this episode we explored how caching and CDNs bridge that gap bringing data closer to users, cutting latency, and boosting reliability. We dived into caching strategies, edge delivery, and real-world practices that help developers overcome distance, scale globally, and deliver blazing-fast performance. Need a team to migrate workloads to the cloud, secure your infrastructure, automate your processes, and train your team for optimal adoption, email: contact@diogomic.me to start your transformation today. Let’s make your operations and workloads more optimize and more secured.

    15 min
  4. From Chaos to Control: Incident Management Unpacked

    SEP 18

    From Chaos to Control: Incident Management Unpacked

    Downtime, outages, and unexpected crises can derail any business. This episode, From Chaos to Control: The Incident Management dives into the strategies, tools, and real-world stories that help teams respond faster, reduce impact, and learn from every incident. Insights from IT leaders, SREs, and operations experts on how to turn high-pressure moments into opportunities for resilience, growth, and continuous improvement. Need a team to migrate workloads to the cloud, secure your infrastructure, automate your processes, and train your team for optimal adoption, email: contact@diogomic.me to start your transformation today. Let’s make your operations and workloads more optimize and more secured.

    18 min
  5. Database Sharding, Breaking Up Databases (Without Breaking Them)

    SEP 17

    Database Sharding, Breaking Up Databases (Without Breaking Them)

    Struggling with slow, overloaded databases as your application scales? Database Sharding: Breaking Up Databases (Without Breaking Them) offers clear insights into how sharding can solve performance bottlenecks, boost scalability, and keep systems resilient. This episode breaks down concepts, real-world strategies, and best practices so you can confidently design, implement, and manage sharded databases without the headaches. Need a team to migrate workloads to the cloud, secure your infrastructure, automate your processes, and train your team for optimal adoption, email: contact@diogomic.me to start your transformation today. Let’s make your operations and workloads more optimize and more secured.

    16 min
  6. Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Blueprint Strategies for Cloud Success

    SEP 14

    Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Blueprint Strategies for Cloud Success

    In the business world today, organizations face constant pressure to stay compliant, manage risks, and make smarter decisions. Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Blueprint Strategies for Cloud Success dives deep into Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC), a unified approach that breaks down silos and brings IT, business, and leadership together under one coordinated model. Whether you are an IT leader, compliance officer, risk manager, or executive decision-maker, this podcast gives you the knowledge to navigate uncertainty, cut risk management costs, and unify your organization’s policies, decisions, and actions. Need a team to migrate workloads to the cloud, secure your infrastructure, automate your processes, and train your team for optimal adoption, email: contact@diogomic.me to start your transformation today. Let’s make your operations and workloads more optimize and more secured.

    22 min
  7. Understanding Observability in the Cloud

    AUG 9

    Understanding Observability in the Cloud

    In today’s cloud-driven world, monitoring alone is no longer enough to ensure the health, performance, and security of modern applications and infrastructure. Observability goes beyond simply detecting issues, it empowers IT teams to understand why problems occur, pinpoint root causes faster, and take proactive steps to prevent future incidents. By leveraging metrics, logs, traces, and events supported by tools like AWS CloudWatch organizations can achieve deep visibility across complex, distributed systems. This not only reduces downtime and improves user experience but also fuels innovation, operational agility, and business resilience. In short, observability isn’t just a technical capability it’s a strategic advantage in the cloud era. Need a team to migrate workloads to the cloud, secure your infrastructure, automate your processes, and train your team for optimal adoption, email: contact@diogomic.me to start your transformation today. Let’s make your operations and workloads more optimize and more secured.

    14 min
  8. Deep Dive into AWS Security, Identity and Compliance

    AUG 1

    Deep Dive into AWS Security, Identity and Compliance

    AWS is built from the ground up to be the most secure and resilient global cloud infrastructure, making it an ideal platform for developing, migrating, and managing applications and workloads at any scale. With a comprehensive suite of Security, Identity, and Compliance services, AWS enables you to embed robust security controls to safeguard your application architecture helping you protect sensitive data, manage user access, detect threats, and maintain regulatory compliance. In this episode, we explore the wide range of AWS security tools and best practices that can help you strengthen your cloud security posture. From services like AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Shield, AWS Cognito and AWS WAF, to logging and monitoring solutions such as AWS CloudTrail and Amazon GuardDuty, we’ll show you how to leverage these tools to build layered defenses and ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of your workloads in the cloud.

    26 min
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🎙️ The Cloud Engineer’s Playbook Whether starting your cloud journey or levelling up your cloud and automation skills, The Cloud Engineer’s Playbook is your go-to resource. We dive into real-world cloud engineering strategies, industry insights, and hands-on guidance each week. Tune in, get inspired, and take your skills to the next level, one episode at a time.

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