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I was a serverless evangelist for two years. Then I ran a real production workload on Lambda and learned some expensive lessons about cold starts, timeout limits, and vendor lock-in.
We decided to migrate from our managed hosting to AWS in Q4. Three months of downtime incidents, one near-catastrophic data access issue, and one extremely uncomfortable conversation with investors later, here's what we learned.
I've been running Kubernetes in production since 2022. Here's what the blog posts don't tell you: the operational surprises, the 2am incidents, and the things I wish I'd known before I started.
We ran Jenkins for four years. Migration to GitHub Actions took three months. Here's the honest comparison: what got better, what we miss, and whether we'd do it again.
Last November our traffic spiked 12x in 90 minutes. We caught a cascade failure in under four minutes and resolved it before 95% of users noticed. Here's the monitoring setup that made that possible.
When people started calling it 'platform engineering' instead of DevOps, a lot of engineers rolled their eyes at another industry rebrand. They were wrong to. Here's what actually changed.
We built a fully automated CI/CD pipeline: commit to deploy in under eight minutes, zero manual steps. It was a genuine improvement. It also created a class of problems I didn't anticipate.
After four years on a custom React SPA, we migrated to Next.js 14 App Router. Six months later I have real data on performance, developer experience, and the things I wish I'd known before starting.
We built a live event feature. It worked fine in testing. At 50,000 concurrent users it triggered a re-render cascade that locked up browsers across the entire platform. Here's exactly what happened.
I resisted TypeScript for longer than I'd like to admit. Two years after finally committing to it for a production codebase, I have data on what actually changed — and one honest admission about where I was wrong.
