Picture this: It’s the end of the month, and I’m staring at my AWS bill with that all-too-familiar knot in my stomach. We’ve all been there, right? A few years ago, my team’s cloud costs were spiraling out of control, reaching nearly $15,000 monthly. After countless late-night optimization sessions and some hard-learned lessons, we managed […]
Let me share something that’s been on my mind lately. Last month, I found myself in a heated discussion with fellow developers about container orchestration – you know, the kind of debate that starts during sprint planning and somehow ends up continuing over beers after work. After spending years working with both Kubernetes and Docker […]
Ever had that moment when your team lead drops the “We need to set up CI/CD” bomb during a meeting? Yeah, I’ve been there. A few years ago, I was that deer-in-headlights developer trying to figure out what all the pipeline fuss was about. Today, I’m going to walk you through building your first CI/CD […]