DevOps & Monitoring · Cloud Computing

Backstage looks like a quick install, but the recurring cost is a standing platform team. A leader's guide to deciding DIY Backstage versus a hosted IDP.

platform-engineering · developer-experience

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.

claude · github-actions · code-review +3

A practical guide to building an org-level shared GitHub Actions platform: architecture decisions, security governance, adoption, and 7 costly mistakes.

github-actions · ci-cd · devops +5

Run Bun and Deno on AWS Lambda with custom runtimes: performance benchmarks, cost analysis, and production deployment patterns.

lambda · javascript · serverless +2

A technical guide to choosing and implementing AWS edge computing for global apps, with practical examples and cost optimization strategies.

aws · cloudfront · lambda +6

A practical guide to Mozilla SOPS for encrypting secrets in Git: age encryption, AWS CDK and Lambda patterns, and production-ready serverless security.

secrets-management · ci-cd · terraform +7

A practical guide to building Internal Developer Platforms with golden paths, self-service infrastructure, and product thinking, using Backstage, Port, and AWS.

platform-engineering · developer-experience · aws +2

Prompt caching, model routing, token budgets, and semantic caching: how to keep production LLM spend predictable without giving up answer quality.

aws · cost-optimization · llm +3

Build a testing strategy for AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and Step Functions with practical patterns for fast feedback and reliability.

lambda · testing · serverless +8

Overcome CloudFormation's 500 resource limit with nested stacks, cross-stack references, SSM Parameter Store, and microstack architecture, shown in TypeScript CDK.

aws-cdk · infrastructure-as-code · aws +2

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

opentelemetry · observability · monitoring +4

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

aws · lambda · aws-cdk +4

Multi-environment deployment, performance optimization at scale, cost management, and monitoring with solid incident response patterns.

aws-cdk · lambda · dynamodb +6

Multi-region deployment, database scaling, disaster recovery, and long-term maintenance patterns for production systems at scale.

aws-cdk · reliability · scalability +1

Set up a production-grade link shortener with AWS CDK, DynamoDB, and Lambda: architecture decisions, project layout, and the schema choices that hold up at scale.

aws-cdk · lambda · dynamodb +5

Build the redirect engine, analytics collection, and API Gateway config: performance optimizations and debugging strategies for millions of daily redirects.

aws-cdk · lambda · api-gateway +5

A practical guide to AWS Fargate: task definitions, awsvpc networking, cost trade-offs, and when serverless containers beat managing EC2 hosts yourself.

aws · fargate · ecs +3

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

aws · fargate · ecs +4

Fargate failure modes that green dashboards hide: ENI quota exhaustion, subnet routing breaks, memory leaks, and the checks that find each one.

aws · fargate · debugging +4

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

aws · fargate · aws-cdk +4

Instrument AWS Lambda for production: CloudWatch custom metrics, X-Ray tracing, structured logging, and alerts that track business impact.

lambda · serverless · monitoring +2

Hold AWS Lambda warm-path latency inside a 10 ms budget with runtime choice, connection reuse, bundle discipline, caching, and memory tuning.

aws · lambda · performance +4

Moving from Express.js to Lambda: the common mistakes teams make along the way, and the TypeScript patterns that reduce AWS bills at scale.

api-gateway · cost-optimization · lambda +2

Implementing OpenTelemetry in React Native with an OTLP collector, Firebase Performance, and Crashlytics for production-grade observability.

cloud-providers · monitoring · opentelemetry +1

Plan the Serverless Framework to AWS CDK cut-over: blue-green deployment, rollback procedures, infrastructure testing, and performance tuning.

aws-cdk · monitoring · performance