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2 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,...”

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🚀 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...”

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