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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
😰 Near-MissHow We Almost Lost Our Production Kubernetes Cluster to a Misconfigured CronJob
👤 @k8s_newbie_kimfintech2024
“We ran a 15-node Kubernetes cluster on GKE for our payment processing platform. The team was relatively new to Kubernetes — we had migrated from Heroku 6 months prior. We had basic...”
KubernetesGCPPrometheusGrafana+2
⚡ Incident ReportThe Black Friday Meltdown: How a Missing Index Took Down Our Checkout
👤 @sre_sarahe-commerce2024
“We were a mid-size e-commerce platform processing about 50k orders per day on normal days. Our stack was a Node.js monolith backed by PostgreSQL, deployed on AWS ECS. We had monito...”
PostgreSQLAWSDatadogIncident Response+1