A newsletter for engineering leaders running multitenant SaaS on AWS, prioritising reliability, controlled cloud spend and compliance. Issues give concrete, opinionated guidance on when streaming is justified and how to diagnose and reduce Athena scan costs.
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Practitioner-written DevOps and cloud articles that walk through real client engagements, such as refactoring Terraform repositories, renaming production AWS ECS services and debugging Kubernetes shutdown behavior. Readers get detailed, step-by-step accounts of the problems, trade-offs and fixes involved.
Practical, code-backed guides to running governed AI agents and infrastructure-as-code on Azure and GitHub, drawn from production use cases. Each issue lists the stack, setup time and last-verified date, and links to a public starter repo.
A personal technical blog documenting solutions to unsolved or undocumented engineering problems, with recent posts on speeding up AI-built CI/CD deploy pipelines and managing multiple Claude accounts in the pi coding tool. Readers get detailed, measured write-ups including concrete numbers, configuration details and the reasoning behind the fixes.
Short engineering field notes on cloud infrastructure and CI/CD, built around concrete failures and fixes such as skipped deploy steps, build-time blog rendering and OIDC credentials. Each issue includes code snippets and a practical check or habit readers can adopt.
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