AWS Step Functions: Orchestrating Complex Workflows
I deleted roughly 2,000 lines of orchestration code from our payment processing service last year. Replaced it with about 200 lines of Amazon States …
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Terraform Testing: Unit, Integration, and End-to-End
Most Terraform code has zero tests. That’s insane for something managing production infrastructure. We wouldn’t ship application code …
Read Article →Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry: A Complete Guide
I spent four hours on a Tuesday night debugging a 30-second API call. Four hours. The call touched 12 services — auth, inventory, pricing, three …
Read Article →Container Security Scanning in CI/CD Pipelines
If you’re not scanning container images before they hit production, it’s only a matter of time before something ugly shows up in your …
Read Article →AWS EventBridge: Building Event-Driven Architectures
EventBridge is the most underused AWS service. I’ll die on that hill. Teams will build these elaborate Rube Goldberg machines out of SNS topics, …
Read Article →Python Performance Optimization: Profiling and Tuning Guide
Don’t optimize until you’ve profiled. I’ve watched teams rewrite entire modules that weren’t even the bottleneck. Weeks of …
Read Article →Kubernetes Operators: Building Custom Controllers in Go
Operator SDK vs kubebuilder — I pick kubebuilder every time. Operator SDK wraps kubebuilder anyway, adds a layer of abstraction that mostly just gets …
Read Article →Rust Error Handling Patterns for Production Applications
I got paged at 3am on a Tuesday because a Rust service I’d deployed two weeks earlier crashed hard. No graceful degradation, no useful error …
Read Article →AWS CDK vs Terraform: A Practical Comparison in 2026
I use both. Terraform for multi-cloud, CDK when it’s pure AWS and the team knows TypeScript. That’s the short answer. But the long answer …
Read Article →Platform Engineering: Building an Internal Developer Platform
Platform engineering is DevOps done right. Or maybe it’s DevOps with a product mindset. Either way, it’s the recognition that telling …
Read Article →Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaling with Custom Metrics
CPU-based autoscaling is a lie for most web services. There, I said it.
I spent a painful week last year watching an HPA scale our API pods from 3 to …
Read Article →Go Concurrency Patterns for Microservices
Goroutines are cheap. Goroutine leaks are not.
I learned this the hard way at 2am on a Tuesday, staring at Grafana dashboards showing one of our …
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