Scaling & Infra22 min read
Serverless on AWS in Production — What Nobody Tells You Until It Hurts
Not a "what is serverless" post. The stuff you learn after the demo, from someone who's run it at scale.
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39 long-form articles on production engineering — how real systems fail, why, and what actually fixed them.
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Load balancing, messaging, Lambda, and scaling infrastructure on AWS.
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Scaling & Infra20 min read
AWS Lambda Under the Hood: Firecracker, Cold Starts, and the Concurrency Model Nobody Reads the Docs For
Not a "what is Lambda" post. A deep dive into how Lambda actually works: Firecracker microVMs and the Worker/placement fleet, how invocations get routed on the warm vs cold path, and what the INIT phase really does (and…
Scaling & Infra20 min read
Why Your Autoscaling Isn't Working: The Truth About Spiky Traffic
Every type of scaling explained simply — horizontal, vertical, reactive, predictive, scheduled. Why HPA and ASG break on Dream11 during an IPL final, flash sales, and push notifications.