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DevOps
Articles and guides about DevOps.
The Only CI/CD Pipeline a Startup Needs
Most startups over engineer their deployment infrastructure. Here is the CI/CD pipeline architecture that scales from launch to 100K users, and the decisions that matter most.
Your Website Is Slow: 10 Performance Fixes That Actually Matter
A practical guide to website performance optimization, fixes that cut load times, improve Core Web Vitals, and stop your slow site from killing conversions.
Web Application Security Checklist for Startups
A prioritized security checklist for web applications, the vulnerabilities that actually get exploited and how to prevent them without slowing down development.
Automated Testing Strategy for Startups That Ship Fast
A practical testing strategy that catches real bugs without slowing down development, what to test, what to skip, and the tools that work.
Software Monitoring and Observability for Growing Apps
A practical guide to monitoring and observability, the three pillars, what to monitor first, alerting without fatigue, and the tools worth paying for.
Load Testing: Find Your Breaking Point Before Users Do
Learn how to load test your application effectively. Find bottlenecks, set capacity baselines, and prevent outages before real traffic exposes weaknesses.
Incident Response Playbook: When Your App Goes Down at 2 AM
A complete incident response playbook for production outages. Steps for detection, triage, resolution, and post mortems that prevent repeat failures.
How to Handle Database Migrations Without Downtime
Learn how to run database migrations without downtime using expand and contract patterns, backward compatible changes, and zero downtime deployment strategies.
Database Backup Strategy That Actually Works
A proven database backup strategy covering automated snapshots, offsite replication, and tested restores. Stop gambling with your business data.
Disaster Recovery for Startups: A Plan You Will Actually Follow
A practical disaster recovery plan for startups. Covers database backups, infrastructure failover, incident response, and the minimum viable plan you should have before launch.
Zero Downtime Deployments: How to Ship Without Downtime
A practical guide to zero downtime deployments for web applications. Covers blue green, rolling, and canary strategies with real implementation details.
Secrets Management: Keeping API Keys and Credentials Safe
A practical guide to secrets management for engineering teams. Covers common mistakes like hardcoded credentials, environment variables vs secret managers, rotation strategies, and CI/CD pipeline secrets.
Background Jobs and Queue Architecture: A Practical Guide
Learn how to design background job systems and message queues that handle email, payments, data processing, and more without slowing down your application.
Feature Flags: How to Ship Fast Without Breaking Production
Feature flags let you deploy code without releasing it to users. Learn how to architect a feature flag system that enables fast shipping, safe rollbacks, and controlled rollouts.
Event Driven Architecture: When It Is Worth the Complexity
Event driven architecture enables powerful decoupling and scalability but adds real complexity. A practical guide to deciding when the tradeoffs are justified.
Caching Strategy: Redis, CDN, and Edge
A practical guide to caching at every layer of your stack. Learn when to use Redis, CDN, and edge caching, how they interact, and how to avoid the common pitfalls that cause stale data bugs.
How to Prepare Your App for a Product Hunt Launch
A technical checklist for preparing your app for a Product Hunt launch, covering infrastructure scaling, performance, monitoring, and post launch survival.
Migrating from Heroku to Modern Hosting Platforms
Practical guide to migrating off Heroku. Covers alternatives like Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Vercel with step by step migration strategies and cost comparisons.
Moving from On Premise Software to the Cloud: A Practical Migration Guide
How to migrate on premise software to the cloud without disrupting your business. Covers infrastructure, data, security, and cost planning for a successful transition.
Data Migration Planning: Moving Data Without Losing It
A practical guide to data migration planning covering strategy, validation, rollback plans, and how to move data between systems without losing records or breaking production.
Your Hosting Bill Tripled: How to Optimize Without a Full Migration
Practical strategies to reduce cloud hosting costs by 40 to 70 percent without rearchitecting your entire application or switching providers.
How Much Does Cloud Hosting Cost for a Growing Startup?
Real cloud hosting costs from $0 to $10K per month as you scale. What to expect at each stage and how to avoid the bill shock that kills margins.