Author
Andrius Lukminas
42 articles published
Engineering
From Local Disk to S3: Building a Dual-Provider Storage Layer
How we designed a storage abstraction that supports both local filesystem and S3 — with environment-driven switching, URL derivation, and zero application code changes when migrating between providers.
about 1 month ago9 min
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Developer Experience
Sharp + WebP: Server-Side Image Optimization in Next.js
A deep dive into our image optimization pipeline — using Sharp to resize, compress, strip EXIF data, and convert uploads to WebP with profile-specific presets for blog, avatar, and logo images.
about 1 month ago8 min
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Engineering
Building Production Email Infrastructure with AWS SES
How we built a production email system handling 18 transactional email types — from auth verification to billing receipts — with SES domain verification, template rendering, and delivery monitoring.
about 2 months ago9 min
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Engineering
Migrating Uploads to AWS S3 + CloudFront CDN
Why local disk storage doesn't scale for a SaaS platform, how we integrated S3 with CloudFront on cdn.boottify.com, and the storage abstraction that makes provider switching seamless.
about 2 months ago9 min
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Engineering
Responsive Image Thumbnailing: From 550KB to 5KB Per Image
How we built a 4-tier WebP thumbnail pipeline that generates responsive variants on upload, cutting blog image bandwidth by 93-99% — from 550KB originals to 5KB admin thumbnails.
about 2 months ago8 min
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Engineering
Building a Production Deployment Pipeline from Scratch
How we built a complete CI/CD pipeline with Docker multi-stage builds, Kubernetes deployments, real-time log streaming, and GitHub Actions webhooks — all managed through a single dashboard.
2 months ago8 min
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Security
Security Update: React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) Audit Complete
We completed a full security audit for the critical React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182, CVSS 10.0). Boottify is confirmed NOT VULNERABLE — patched versions, no Server Actions, and verified by multiple scanners.
2 months ago3 min
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Engineering
From 7 God Files to Zero: Refactoring a 162K-Line Codebase
How we identified and eliminated all 7 files over 500 lines, created shared hooks and components, and brought our entire codebase under control without breaking anything in production.
2 months ago9 min
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Engineering
Why 2026 Is the Year Nobody Trusts a Single Cloud
Major outages, aggressive pricing changes, and AI-driven workload diversity are pushing teams toward multi-cloud. Here's why the single-cloud era is ending and what a realistic multi-cloud strategy looks like.
2 months ago9 min
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Security
The SaaS Downtime Crisis: 156 Major Incidents and What to Do About It
SaaS outages increased 69% year-over-year with 9,255 hours of degraded service across major platforms. Here's the data, the patterns, and the protection strategies every SaaS operator needs.
2 months ago9 min
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Engineering
Kubernetes + AI Workloads: How SRE Is Being Pushed to Its Limit
GPU scheduling, bursty inference traffic, and multi-terabyte model weights are breaking traditional SRE assumptions. Here's how Kubernetes and the SRE discipline are adapting to the AI workload era.
2 months ago10 min
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UI/UX
From Hardcoded Colors to Design Tokens: Standardizing 3,796 Instances
How we migrated 148 files from hardcoded hex color values to CSS custom properties, the design token mapping system we built, and why this was one of the most impactful refactors we've done.
2 months ago7 min
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