Engineering essays from the bench.
War stories, architecture decisions, and the occasional tirade. Written by the engineers who shipped it.
Microservices Architecture Patterns for Scalable Systems
Master essential microservices patterns including API gateway, saga, CQRS, service mesh, and event-driven architecture for building scalable distributed systems.
Cloud Migration Strategies: Lift-and-Shift vs Re-Architecture
Compare the 6 Rs of cloud migration - rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retain, and retire - to find the right migration strategy for each workload.
Serverless Architecture Patterns for Event-Driven Applications
Learn proven serverless architecture patterns for building event-driven applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, and EventBridge.
GitOps: Modern Deployment Strategies with ArgoCD and Flux
Implement GitOps deployment workflows using ArgoCD and Flux to achieve declarative, auditable, and automated infrastructure and application delivery.
Disaster Recovery in the Cloud: Building Resilient Infrastructure
Design cloud disaster recovery strategies across the four DR tiers - backup-restore, pilot light, warm standby, and multi-site active - with RTO and RPO guidance.
Applying the AWS Well-Architected Framework to Your Workloads
Use the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework - operational excellence, security, reliability, performance, cost optimization, and sustainability - to audit and improve your cloud architecture.
Observability in Production: Logs, Metrics, and Traces Done Right
A comprehensive guide to building a production observability stack with structured logging, meaningful metrics, distributed tracing, and effective alerting.
