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The right way to choose between REST, GraphQL, and gRPC on AWS

May 12, 202620 min read

RAG in Practice: Building a Citation-Grounded Search System with pgvector and Amazon Bedrock

Apr 7, 202614 min read

The AWS Bill Surprise: How I Built Ratefence CLI to Stop Forgotten Resources

One simple terminal command to scan your AWS account, spot orphaned resources, and see estimated monthly costs without credentials ever leaving your machine.

Aug 10, 20268 min read

I kept hearing LangChain everywhere. Here's what I found — and what I built.

Apr 2, 202616 min read

The Hub-and-Spoke Pattern for Multi-Environment Kubernetes: How to Scale from 3 to 30 Environments in Minutes

Mar 26, 202622 min read

How I Designed and Deployed a Production Platform for a Veterinary Clinic — And Why System Design Saved the Project

A few months ago, a veterinary clinic came to me with an app they needed deployed to AWS. What started as "just get it running in the cloud" turned into a proper platform engineering engagement — mult

Mar 21, 202610 min read

Part 1: Reading the Requirements Before Touching a Single Service

This is Part 1 of a 5-part series where I walk through how I designed and built a production AWS platform from scratch — multi-region, zero-downtime, 30,000 concurrent users, everything automated. The

Mar 21, 20269 min read

Part 2: Drawing the Architecture Before Writing Code

This is Part 2 of a 5-part series on building a production AWS platform. In Part 1, I walked through how to read requirements carefully before making any decisions. Here, I'll go through how I turned

Mar 21, 202610 min read

Part 3: Why I Split This Into 6 Repos — and How They Talk to Each Other

This is Part 3 of a 5-part series on building a production AWS platform. In Part 2, I walked through the core architecture decisions. Here, I'll explain the 6-repository structure — the thinking behin

Mar 21, 202610 min read

Part 4: Zero-Downtime Deployments and What Actually Gets Tested

This is Part 4 of a 5-part series on building a production AWS platform. In Part 3, I covered the 6-repository structure and how repos communicate through SSM without tight coupling. Here, I'll go thr

Mar 21, 202611 min read

Part 5: What I'd Do Differently — Honest Lessons from Building This Platform

This is Part 5 of a 5-part series on building a production AWS platform. In Part 4, I covered deployment mechanics and resilience testing. This final part is about what I'd change — the gaps I'm aware

Mar 21, 202610 min read

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