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Terraform for Application Engineers: Why You Should Own Your InfrastructureAt 11pm on a Tuesday, a Cloud Run service stopped accepting traffic. No deployment had happened. No code had changed. The service was running — Cloud Run showed healthy instances — but requests were tAug 9, 2026·5 min read·35
What Leading a 4-Person Engineering Team Actually Looks LikeI became an engineering lead without a transition plan. One week I was an individual contributor shipping features. The next I was responsible for four engineers, client deadlines, sprint planning, coAug 7, 2026·7 min read·24
FastAPI Background Tasks vs Pub/Sub vs Cloud Tasks: When to Use WhatS01E04 of FastAPI in ProductionAug 4, 2026·5 min read·43
I Migrated a Product from AWS to GCP — Here's What I'd Do DifferentlyLast year we moved a production platform off AWS and onto GCP. Full migration — compute, database, storage, CDN, CI/CD, the works. The product was live, clients were active, and we had no meaningful dJul 29, 2026·5 min read·52
Testing FastAPI Services: Unit, Integration, and Contract TestsS01E03 of FastAPI in ProductionJul 24, 2026·5 min read·55
