Cloud Infrastructure
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, DevOps, and building resilient platforms at scale.
RDS Proxy in Production: What the Docs Don't Tell You
A year of RDS Proxy under 16M orders: multiplexing that works, the pinning trap that silently disables it, and the failover win nobody markets.
When the War Reached Our Cloud: Evacuating an AWS Region in 6 Hours
The attack that took down AWS Bahrain forced an emergency migration: our DR plan under real fire, and how Kiro moved 63 services in 6 hours, not 3 weeks.
Real-Time Order Tracking with AWS AppSync: How We Cut Update Latency by 94%
How we replaced REST polling with AWS AppSync subscriptions at Rafeeq: live order tracking and partner alerts in under a second instead of 45.
Scaling Reads on RDS: Auto Scaling Groups, Redis, and CDN Caching in Front of Your Replicas
How we took our RDS read replicas from 74% CPU to 28% while traffic grew, by letting CloudFront and Redis absorb 85% of reads before they ever reach the database.
Cutting Our Kubernetes Bill: A Practical Playbook
Concrete, ordered steps to reduce Kubernetes infrastructure costs: right-sizing, spot instances, autoscaling, and the observability to keep it that way.
