Stop Trying Harder: The Identity Shift That Makes Success AutomaticWe’ve all been there. You start a new diet, a new workout routine, or a new creative project with a burst of motivation. For a few days, or maybe even two weeks, you’re unstoppable. And then, suddenly, you’re not. You skip one gym session. You order ...Nov 14, 2025·4 min read
A Developer’s Journey to the Cloud 9: Happiness (or So I Thought, Observing the Chaos)Aug 21, 2025·4 min read
A Developer’s Journey to the Cloud 7: Advanced Database ScalingAfter conquering servers with Kubernetes and automating infrastructure with Terraform, I thought I had reached peak scalability. I was wrong. I had finally reached the summit. Or so I thought. My infrastructure was now code, managed by Terraform. My ...Aug 19, 2025·5 min read
A Developer’s Journey to the Cloud 6: My Path to Kubernetes and IaCFrom Herding Servers to Building Worlds with Code I had done it. I had achieved high availability. My application was running on a fleet of two identical servers, managed by a smart load balancer. If one server went down, the other would seamlessly t...Aug 16, 2025·7 min read
A Developer’s Journey to the Cloud 5: Load Balancers & Multiple ServersMy Server Was a Superhero, and That Was the Problem I had finally done it. My application was a well-oiled machine.The database and cache were offloaded to managed services, so they could scale on their own.My deployments were a one-command, automate...Aug 15, 2025·4 min read
A Developer’s Journey to the Cloud 4: Caching with RedisMy App Was Getting Popular, and It Was Starting to Hurt For the first time in this journey, I felt a sense of true peace. My deployments were fully automated. I could push a new feature, walk away to make a cup of tea, and return to find it live in p...Aug 14, 2025·4 min read
A Developer’s Journey to the Cloud 3: Building a CI/CD PipelineMy Deployments Were a Ritual, Not a Process We've come so far. Our application is neatly containerized in Docker, and our data is safe and sound in managed cloud services. I had eliminated the "works on my machine" curse and outsourced my 3 AM data-l...Aug 13, 2025·4 min read
A Developer’s Journey to the Cloud 2: My Database Lived in a Shoebox, and I Didn’t Even Know ItManaged DatabaseAug 12, 2025·4 min read
