Finding work after a corporate restructure. Also migrating my workloads from VMs and strewn-about containers onto a Talos K8s node, so I can break the cycle of bespoke builds at home and get back to enjoying projects.

Speaking of projects, I’m roughing out a method of pulling cost data for common services (compute, storage, databases, etc) across the three major cloud providers and making recommendations as to where to put things for optimal cost; a key component of a “universal cloud” idea I’ve been kicking around since 2020 or so, where the base cloud services are abstracted away into commodities rather than bespoke products or locked-in vendors. The goal is to basically have something like Terraform that will transpose its code to the destination cloud chosen by the cost analyzer at execution, and eventually auto-migrate load as prices or needs change (e.g., a client churning early and shifting that reserved instance to another customer for a higher margin).

Write once, and trust the pricing model to deploy it where it makes the most fiscal sense. No more learning Azure/GCP/AWS for bog-standard workloads anymore.