Senior Software Engineer at CloudTech Inc. | 8+ years in distributed systems | Go, Python, Kubernetes enthusiast
After implementing microservices at scale for three different companies, I've learned which patterns actually deliver on their promises and which ones create more problems than they solve. Here's my practical guide to microservices patterns that have stood the test of production environments...
Continue reading →Last quarter, our team faced mounting AWS bills for our Kubernetes infrastructure. Through systematic optimization of resource requests, implementing cluster autoscaling, and rightsizing workloads, we achieved significant cost savings. Here's exactly how we did it...
While most Go tutorials cover channels and goroutines, real-world applications require more sophisticated concurrency patterns. This post explores worker pools, pipeline patterns, and context-based cancellation with production examples...
Sharding our PostgreSQL database was one of the most challenging projects I've worked on. From choosing sharding keys to handling cross-shard transactions, here are the hard-learned lessons from sharding a database serving 100 million users...
Alert fatigue is real. After implementing monitoring for dozens of services, I've developed a framework for creating alerts that actually matter. Learn how to implement SLI/SLO-based alerting that reduces noise and catches real issues...
Managing Terraform state across multiple teams and environments requires discipline and good practices. This post covers state management, module design, and CI/CD integration patterns that scale with your organization...
Good API design is hard to get right, but the cost of getting it wrong compounds over time. These principles, learned from building APIs used by millions of requests per day, will help you design APIs that stand the test of time...