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3 stories from the trenches

🏗️ System Design

How We Built a Production-Grade AWS Infrastructure from Scratch in 6 Weeks — as a Team of Two

👤 Swift-Timber-19a Early-stage startup SaaS2026

“We were 14 months into building a B2B document intelligence platform for legal teams. Our entire infrastructure was a single $48/mo DigitalOcean VPS — one box, manually SSHed into,...”

AWSTerraformGitHub ActionsDocker+4
🦸 Heroic Save

Recovering from Terraform State Corruption 30 Minutes Before a Board Demo

👤 @sre_hero_mayainfrastructure2025

“We provided a cloud infrastructure management platform. Our own infrastructure was managed by Terraform with state stored in an S3 backend with DynamoDB locking. We had a board dem...”

TerraformAWSIncident ResponseCI/CD+1
🚀 Migration

Migrating 200 Microservices from Jenkins to GitHub Actions in 3 Months

👤 @platform_peteSaaS2025

“Our platform team managed a Jenkins cluster running over 200 pipelines for our microservices. Jenkins was running on a fleet of 40 EC2 instances, costing us roughly $25k/month in c...”

JenkinsGitHub ActionsCI/CDAWS+1