DevOps & Monitoring

A hardened, paste-ready setup for adding Anthropic's claude-code-action to a GitHub repo, with the security and cost knobs spelled out for production use.

A practical guide to building an org-level shared GitHub Actions platform covering architecture decisions, security governance, adoption strategy, and the 7 biggest mistakes we made along the way.

Technical implementation guide for running Bun and Deno on AWS Lambda using custom runtimes, with real performance benchmarks, cost analysis, and production deployment patterns.

A comprehensive technical guide to choosing and implementing AWS edge computing solutions for global applications with practical examples and cost optimization strategies.

A comprehensive guide to Mozilla SOPS for managing encrypted secrets in Git repositories. Learn age encryption, AWS CDK patterns, AWS Lambda integration, and production-ready security strategies for serverless workflows.

A practical guide to building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) using golden paths, self-service infrastructure, and product thinking. Covers Backstage, Port, AWS services, metrics beyond DORA, and common pitfalls.

Token-based pricing creates unique cost challenges for production LLM applications. Learn systematic optimization strategies including prompt caching, model routing, and token budgets to reduce costs by 60-80% without sacrificing quality.

Learn how to build a comprehensive testing strategy for AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and Step Functions with practical patterns for fast feedback and production reliability.

Exploring proven strategies to overcome CloudFormation's 500 resource limit using nested stacks, cross-stack references, SSM Parameter Store, and microstack architecture with real TypeScript CDK examples and decision frameworks.

A comprehensive beginner's guide to OpenTelemetry covering traces, metrics, and logs with practical implementation examples, common pitfalls, and a detailed terminology glossary.

Practical approaches to managing Lambda Layer versions across dev, staging, and production environments with AWS CDK, including automated deployment pipelines and rollback strategies.

Multi-region deployment, database scaling strategies, disaster recovery patterns, and long-term maintenance approaches. Practical patterns for production systems at scale and architectural decisions for long-term success.

Multi-environment deployment strategies, performance optimization at scale, and cost management. Production insights and lessons learned with proper monitoring and incident response patterns.

Setting up a production-grade link shortener with AWS CDK, DynamoDB, and Lambda. Real architecture decisions, initial setup, and lessons learned from building URL shorteners at scale.

Building the redirect engine, analytics collection, and API Gateway configuration. Real performance optimizations and debugging strategies from handling millions of daily redirects.

A practical guide to AWS Fargate from someone who's managed too many EC2 instances. Learn when serverless containers make sense and when they don't.

Advanced Fargate patterns learned from running production workloads. From cost optimization to stateful containers, here's what the docs won't tell you.

Production incidents from running Fargate at scale. Memory leaks, ENI limits, subnet failures, and debugging techniques that work.

How to deploy Fargate effectively with different IaC tools. Practical patterns, common gotchas, and what works best for each approach.

Comprehensive production monitoring and debugging strategies for AWS Lambda based on real-world incident response, featuring CloudWatch metrics, X-Ray tracing, structured logging, and effective alerting patterns.

Achieve sub-10ms response times in AWS Lambda through runtime selection, database optimization, bundle size reduction, and caching strategies. Real benchmarks and production lessons included.

Why I moved from Express.js to Lambda, the costly mistakes I made along the way, and the TypeScript patterns that saved my team thousands in AWS bills.

Execute a smooth migration from Serverless Framework to AWS CDK with proven strategies, testing approaches, rollback procedures, and performance optimization techniques.