Writing & Insights

Thoughts on site reliability engineering, cloud infrastructure, database optimization, and building scalable systems.

Infrastructure 2024

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
Cloud 2024

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
Database 2024

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
DevOps 2024

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
Observability 2024

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
SRE 2024

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