Clean Systems in a Messy Cloud

Cloud architecture is rarely as clean as the diagrams make it look. Real systems grow, responsibilities blur, and the cloud introduces a unique kind of chaos — latency, failures, scaling quirks, and service interactions you never planned for.In this episode, we explore what it actually means to keep systems clean in an environment that is anything but.We talk about the evolution from clean code to clean cloud thinking, the dangers of over-engineering with microservices, and the subtle art of finding boundaries that make systems resilient rather than fragile.