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CI/CD pipelines, Docker, GitHub Actions, SRE and platform engineering.

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Kubernetes Is Overkill for 90% of Projects. I Said What I Said.

Kubernetes Is Overkill for 90% of Projects. I Said What I Said.

Everyone in the cloud community acts like Kubernetes is the obvious default. It isn't. For most projects, K8s adds complexity that doesn't pay for itself until you reach a specific scale you probably haven't hit yet.

Darpan Patel · Apr 20, 2026 · 6 min
Serverless Was Amazing Until My Lambda Timed Out at 3am

Serverless Was Amazing Until My Lambda Timed Out at 3am

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.

Darpan Patel · Apr 20, 2026 · 7 min
The Cloud Migration That Almost Killed Our Startup (And What Saved Us)

The Cloud Migration That Almost Killed Our Startup (And What Saved Us)

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.

Darpan Patel · Apr 20, 2026 · 8 min
What Three Years of Running Kubernetes in Production Actually Taught Me

What Three Years of Running Kubernetes in Production Actually Taught Me

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.

Darpan Patel · Apr 20, 2026 · 9 min
We Replaced Jenkins With GitHub Actions. Six Months Later, Here's the Verdict.

We Replaced Jenkins With GitHub Actions. Six Months Later, Here's the Verdict.

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.

Darpan Patel · Apr 20, 2026 · 7 min
The Monitoring Stack That Saved Our Black Friday

The Monitoring Stack That Saved Our Black Friday

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.

Darpan Patel · Apr 20, 2026 · 7 min
Platform Engineering vs DevOps: Why the Name Change Actually Matters

Platform Engineering vs DevOps: Why the Name Change Actually Matters

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.

Darpan Patel · Apr 20, 2026 · 6 min
I Automated Our Entire Deployment Process. Here's the Part Nobody Warned Me About.

I Automated Our Entire Deployment Process. Here's the Part Nobody Warned Me About.

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.

Darpan Patel · Apr 20, 2026 · 7 min
I Built an AI Agent to Handle My Emails for 30 Days. Honest Review.

I Built an AI Agent to Handle My Emails for 30 Days. Honest Review.

I used n8n and Claude to build an AI agent that triages, drafts responses to, and files my emails. Here's what it got right, what it got hilariously wrong, and whether I'm still running it.

Darpan Patel · Apr 20, 2026 · 8 min
Claude Code Review vs Codex Code Review: Which Should You Use in 2026?

Claude Code Review vs Codex Code Review: Which Should You Use in 2026?

Two of the most powerful AI code review tools are now Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. We compare their strengths, weaknesses, costs, and ideal use cases to help you pick the right one for your team.

Darpan Patel · Apr 20, 2026 · 8 min