https://rmmartins.com/tags/architecture/ Recent content in Architecture on Ricardo Martins — Cloud Architecture, Azure, Kubernetes & AI https://rmmartins.com/images/profile.png https://rmmartins.com/images/profile.png Hugo en-US Wed, 06 May 2026 18:05:48 -0400 https://rmmartins.com/2026/01/23/cloud-maturity-is-not-about-being-100-cloud/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:00:00 -0400 https://rmmartins.com/2026/01/23/cloud-maturity-is-not-about-being-100-cloud/ <p>For years, &ldquo;cloud-first&rdquo; has been treated as a badge of honor. Companies proudly announce that everything is in the cloud, architects optimize for migrations instead of outcomes, and teams equate progress with how little infrastructure they still own.</p> <p>But after working with dozens of real systems, across different industries and at different scales, one thing becomes clear.</p> <p><strong>Cloud maturity is not about being 100% cloud.</strong> It is about knowing <em>why</em> each workload is where it is.</p>