Writing
How I Cut a $12K/Month Cloud Bill by 75%
(2026-04-15) — The full migration playbook from AWS to self-hosted infrastructure, including the mistakes that almost cost us everything.
Why I Write Go After 5 Years of TypeScript Backends
(2026-03-28) — A practical comparison of building production services in both languages, with real benchmarks from my systems.
Distributed Storage From Scratch
(2026-03-10) — What I learned building an S3-compatible distributed object storage system from the ground up.
Kubernetes on a Single VPS: When It's Worth It
(2026-02-20) — Running K8s on one node sounds absurd. Here's when it actually makes sense and how to do it right.
Microservices Anti-Patterns I've Personally Inflicted
(2026-02-05) — Confessions of a distributed systems engineer who learned every lesson the hard way.
Self-Hosting Postgres at Scale: A Realistic Guide
(2026-01-15) — Everything I know about running Postgres in production without managed services.