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Engineering
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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
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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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.
about 2 months ago8 min
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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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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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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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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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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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