Minhaj Sadik — Writing https://minhajsadik.com/writing Senior backend & DevOps engineer from Sylhet, Bangladesh. I help Bangladeshi SaaS founders and global teams build distributed systems that don't break — and I cut their cloud bills by 60–75%. Available for hire worldwide; Bangla, English. en Thu, 21 May 2026 18:55:42 GMT Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT How I Cut a $12K/Month Cloud Bill by 75% https://minhajsadik.com/writing/cut-cloud-bill-75-percent https://minhajsadik.com/writing/cut-cloud-bill-75-percent Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The full migration playbook from AWS to self-hosted infrastructure, including the mistakes that almost cost us everything. dm@minhajsadik.com (Minhaj Sadik) DevOps Infrastructure Why I Write Go After 5 Years of TypeScript Backends https://minhajsadik.com/writing/why-i-write-go https://minhajsadik.com/writing/why-i-write-go Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT A practical comparison of building production services in both languages, with real benchmarks from my systems. dm@minhajsadik.com (Minhaj Sadik) Go TypeScript Distributed Storage From Scratch https://minhajsadik.com/writing/distributed-storage-from-scratch https://minhajsadik.com/writing/distributed-storage-from-scratch Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT What I learned building an S3-compatible distributed object storage system from the ground up. dm@minhajsadik.com (Minhaj Sadik) Distributed Systems Go Kubernetes on a Single VPS: When It's Worth It https://minhajsadik.com/writing/kubernetes-single-vps https://minhajsadik.com/writing/kubernetes-single-vps Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Running K8s on one node sounds absurd. Here's when it actually makes sense and how to do it right. dm@minhajsadik.com (Minhaj Sadik) Kubernetes DevOps Microservices Anti-Patterns I've Personally Inflicted https://minhajsadik.com/writing/microservices-antipatterns https://minhajsadik.com/writing/microservices-antipatterns Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Confessions of a distributed systems engineer who learned every lesson the hard way. dm@minhajsadik.com (Minhaj Sadik) Architecture Microservices Self-Hosting Postgres at Scale: A Realistic Guide https://minhajsadik.com/writing/self-hosting-postgres-at-scale https://minhajsadik.com/writing/self-hosting-postgres-at-scale Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Everything I know about running Postgres in production without managed services. dm@minhajsadik.com (Minhaj Sadik) PostgreSQL Infrastructure