Platform engineering
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How to Know When Your SaaS Has Outgrown Its Infrastructure
Nine concrete signals that your infrastructure has become the constraint on engineering output, and what each one usually means underneath.
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Notes from production.
Technical writing on cloud architecture, Kubernetes production readiness, Terraform structure, CI/CD, FinOps and AI infrastructure — for engineering leaders.
Kubernetes
10 min read
Kubernetes Production Readiness Checklist
A practical checklist covering workload configuration, cluster hardening, scaling, observability and upgrade safety before you put Kubernetes in front of customers.
ReadFinOps
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AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Guide
A sequenced approach to reducing AWS spend: attribution first, then waste, then rightsizing, then commitments — and the architectural drivers underneath.
ReadTerraform
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Terraform Architecture for Growing Engineering Teams
How to structure Terraform state, modules and review workflow so infrastructure changes stay routine as the number of contributors grows.
ReadPlatform engineering
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Platform Engineering for Growing SaaS Teams
What an internal platform should actually contain at 10, 30 and 50 engineers — and how to avoid building a platform nobody uses.
ReadAI infrastructure
10 min read
How to Move an AI Prototype Into Production
The infrastructure work between a working LLM prototype and a system you can operate: serving, retrieval lifecycle, evaluation, cost control and observability.
ReadCloud architecture
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AWS vs Azure for SaaS Companies
A practical comparison for SaaS engineering leaders: managed services, Kubernetes, identity, cost behaviour and the criteria that should actually drive the decision.
ReadFinOps
7 min read
How Much Should a SaaS Spend on Cloud Infrastructure?
How to reason about cloud spend as a percentage of revenue, why the benchmark ranges are wide, and the metrics that matter more than the ratio.
ReadDevOps
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10 Signs Your CI/CD Pipeline Has Become a Bottleneck
Symptoms that your delivery pipeline is slowing engineering down, what each one indicates structurally, and the order in which to fix them.
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