engineering

Aug 10, 2025 16 min

Building a Scalable WordPress Platform on AWS ECS Fargate: Architecture Decisions and Implementation

Comprehensive guide to deploying production-ready WordPress on AWS ECS Fargate, exploring containerization strategies, infrastructure decisions, and scalability patterns for high-traffic content management systems.

aws ecs fargate

Aug 10, 2025 18 min

Building a Serverless URL Shortener: Architecture Decisions and AWS CDK Implementation

Deep dive into designing and building a production-ready URL shortener using AWS serverless services, exploring architectural tradeoffs, and implementing with AWS CDK.

serverless aws cdk

Aug 10, 2024 12 min

Microservices Architecture Patterns: Lessons from Scale

Deep dive into proven microservices architecture patterns that help organizations scale their systems effectively while maintaining reliability and developer productivity.

microservices distributed-systems scalability

Aug 8, 2024 15 min

Database Performance Optimization: From Slow Queries to Sub-millisecond Response Times

A comprehensive guide to database performance optimization techniques that helped us reduce query response times from seconds to milliseconds.

database performance optimization

Aug 5, 2024 10 min

Building Resilient Systems: Handling Failure at Scale

How we built systems that gracefully handle failures and maintain service availability even when components fail.

resilience fault-tolerance reliability