Scaling Without Surprises: Architecture Patterns That Grow With Your Business
Practical strategies for horizontal scaling, database bottlenecks, and organizational complexity that prevent 3 AM pages when traffic spikes.
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Making Engineers Care About Cloud Costs: Building FinOps Culture Without Becoming the Cost Police
Strategies for embedding cost awareness into engineering workflows, creating meaningful accountability, and celebrating wins without creating adversarial relationships.
Golden Paths That Developers Actually Follow: Designing Opinionated Workflows That Don't Feel Like Handcuffs
The art of creating paved roads that guide teams toward best practices while preserving the flexibility engineers need for edge cases.
SLOs That Actually Work: Moving Beyond Vanity Metrics to Meaningful Reliability Targets
A step-by-step guide to defining service level objectives that balance user expectations, engineering capacity, and business reality—plus how to use error budgets without gaming the system.
Platform Teams Done Right: Structures That Scale Without Creating Bottlenecks
Practical models for organizing platform teams, defining clear boundaries with product engineering, and measuring platform team success beyond ticket counts.