r/cloudcomputing

hey everyone

last night I built something called "OnlyTech - a place for real-world engineering failures, lessons learned"

its kind of inspired by serverlesshorrors.com but broader not just serverless, but all of tech all the ways things break and the weird lessons that come out of it.

the idea is simple a place for real engineering failures the kind you dont usually post about the outages, the bad decisions, the overconfidence friday deploys, the 3am fixes that somehow made it worse before it got better.

everything is anonymous so you can actually be honest about what happened

think of it like onlyfans but for all your tech wizardry gone wrong, and what it taught you
could be
- taking down prod
- scaling disasters
- infra or hardware failures
- security mistakes
- debugging rabbit holes
or anything that makes a good read

ps:if you've got a tech story i'd love to add it

The pharmaceutical cloud services space is undergoing a massive transformation, and the numbers speak for themselves.

According to Roots Analysis, the global pharma cloud services market was valued at USD 10.8 billion in 2025, projected to reach USD 13.0 billion in 2026 and a remarkable USD 42.9 billion by 2035, a CAGR of 14.2% from 2026 to 2035.

Why is pharma going all-in on cloud?

• Accelerated drug discovery & R&D through scalable compute power
• Real-world data management and regulatory compliance at scale
• Remote clinical trial infrastructure post-pandemic
• AI/ML integration for predictive analytics and precision medicine
• Cost optimization moving from CapEx to OpEx models

Roots Analysis highlights that pharmaceutical companies are increasingly relying on cloud platforms not just for storage, but for mission-critical operations like pharmacovigilance, supply chain visibility, and clinical data management.

The big question: Are your organizations actually cloud-first yet, or still running hybrid with legacy on-premise systems? Would love to hear where teams are in their cloud journey.

Drop your thoughts below particularly interested in regulatory concerns around data sovereignty.

Callback to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47156925

After the recent incident where Google silently enabled Gemini on existing API keys, I built keyguard. keyguard audit connects to your GCP projects via the Cloud Resource Manager, Service Usage, and API Keys APIs, checks whether generativelanguage.googleapis.com is enabled on each project, then flags: unrestricted keys (CRITICAL: the silent Maps→Gemini scenario) and keys explicitly allowing the Gemini API (HIGH: intentional but potentially embedded in client code). Also scans source files and git history if you want to check what keys are actually in your codebase.

https://github.com/arzaan789/keyguard

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