Your Cloud Bill Isn’t Inevitable (But Your CFO Thinks It Is)
The Great Cloud Cost Theater I’ve watched teams spend more on cloud infrastructure in a month than I used to make in a year, and half of them can’t explain where the money went. It’s... Read More
The Great Monolith-to-Microservices Migration: A War Story
The Monolith That Ate Manhattan Three years ago, I inherited a monolith that had grown like a digital tumor. What started as a sensible Rails application had metastasized into 400,000 lines of tightly... Read More
The Forgotten Art of Database Hints and Why Your ORM Hates Them
Last Tuesday at 2:47 AM, I watched our payment processing API grind to a halt because a single query decided to table scan 40 million rows instead of using the perfectly good index sitting right there... Read More