Thoughts on site reliability engineering, cloud infrastructure, database optimization,
and building scalable systems.
Designing Zero-Downtime Database Migrations
A comprehensive guide to planning and executing database migrations without service
interruption. Covers strategies, tools, and real-world patterns for maintaining
availability during schema changes and data migrations.
PostgreSQL
Migration
Reliability
AWS Cost Optimization Patterns
Practical strategies for reducing AWS costs without compromising performance or
reliability. Learn about right-sizing, reserved instances, spot instances, and
automated cost management techniques that saved $100K+ monthly.
AWS
Cost Optimization
FinOps
PostgreSQL Reliability at Scale
Best practices for running PostgreSQL in production environments handling millions
of transactions. Covers replication, monitoring, backup strategies, and performance
tuning techniques that ensure high availability.
PostgreSQL
High Availability
Performance
Infrastructure as Code Best Practices
Building maintainable and scalable infrastructure using Terraform. Learn about
module design, state management, multi-environment strategies, and CI/CD integration
for infrastructure deployments.
Terraform
IaC
DevOps
Building Comprehensive Monitoring Systems
Designing observability platforms that provide actionable insights. Covers metrics,
logging, tracing, and alerting strategies that help teams detect and resolve issues
before they impact users.
Monitoring
Observability
Prometheus
Site Reliability Engineering Fundamentals
Core principles of SRE: error budgets, SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs. Learn how to balance
reliability with feature velocity, implement effective incident response, and build
systems that scale reliably.
SRE
Reliability
Best Practices