I Tamed the Lambda-Container Beast: A Tale of 10M Requests, Cold Starts, and Victory
Picture this: It’s 3 AM, and I’m staring at my laptop screen, watching our production servers struggle under load while our AWS bill skyrockets. Sound familiar? That was me six months ago, facing what I lovingly called the “Lambda-Container Beast” – a complex system handling 10M+ daily requests that seemed to have a mind of […]
How I Built a Real-time Analytics Pipeline That Processes 1TB Daily Without Breaking a Sweat
“The dashboard is 3 hours behind again!” This message used to haunt my Slack notifications. Our analytics pipeline was like that friend who’s always fashionably late – except there was nothing fashionable about delayed business insights. Today, our pipeline processes over 1TB of data daily with real-time dashboards that actually mean real-time. Here’s the story […]
Building a Modern AWS Infrastructure: A Cloud Migration Case Study
As a Cloud Architect at a mid-sized SaaS company, I recently completed a large-scale migration to AWS that transformed our infrastructure and development processes. The project spanned six months and resulted in a fully modernized cloud platform that reduced our operational costs by 40% while significantly improving our system reliability and performance. Initial Infrastructure Assessment […]