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Monitoring and Alerting: What a Small Team Actually Needs
A handful of checks covers most real incidents. What to monitor first, what to alert on, and how to keep alerts from being ignored.
Zero-Downtime Deployments: Approaches and Trade-Offs
Releasing without taking the site offline is mostly a database problem. The main approaches and the one technique that makes them work.
Backups Are Not Enough: Test Your Restore
A backup that has never been restored is a hope, not a safeguard. What to back up, where to keep it and how to prove it works.
Do You Need Kubernetes? An Honest Answer for Small Teams
Kubernetes solves real problems that most small products do not have. How to tell whether you do, and what to use if you do not.
Redis Caching Patterns for High-Performance Applications
Caching solves performance problems and creates consistency problems. Choosing the right pattern for each use case avoids the second half of that trade.
Docker and CI/CD: Building a Reliable Deployment Pipeline
A deployment pipeline you can trust doesn't happen by accident. It's a specific set of practices, most of which are cheap to build in from the start.
Cloud Architecture for Growing Applications: Scaling Without Overspending
Cloud costs rarely grow because of bad architecture. They grow because nobody revisits sizing decisions after the initial launch.
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