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10 February 20265 min read

AWS Three-Tier Architecture — The Design Decisions That Matter

Beyond the diagram: the specific design decisions behind a production-grade AWS three-tier deployment — why internal ALBs, why private subnets for RDS, and what actually validates that your architecture is secure.

AWSCloudArchitecture

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1 June 20243 min read

Setting Up Security Onion — What I Learned

A practical walkthrough of deploying Security Onion as a SIEM and IDS platform for the first time — what worked, what didn't, and what every SOC analyst candidate should understand before sitting in front of it.

CybersecuritySOCSecurity Onion

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