Story9 min read
200 Databases, One Pipeline: A Kafka & Debezium War Story
A VP said "Can't you just, like, combine them?" There were 200+ store MySQL databases. I smiled and said sure. Here's what actually happened.
KafkaDebeziumMySQL
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Blog & Stories
Sharing my DevOps journey, lessons learned, and practical guides for building better infrastructure.
Story4 min read
2025 in Retrospect
The last day of the year. Reflections on habits, discipline, growth, and the messy journey of becoming better. Here's to doing it, not just saying it.
Year ReviewPersonal GrowthReflection
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Cloud5 min read
How We Cut Our AWS Bill by 40%: The Full Breakdown
A retail company running servers 24/7 for a business that closes at midnight. The biggest saving wasn't sophisticated — it was just turning things off. Plus NAT Gateways, right-sizing, and VPN cleanup.
AWSCost OptimizationCloud
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Tutorial8 min read
Terraform Best Practices: Lessons from Someone Who Has Absolutely Never Deleted Production
Three years of Terraform lessons — anchored by a production incident that may or may not have happened, featuring an RDS database that may or may not have been destroyed. Hypothetically.
TerraformIaCBest Practices
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Story5 min read
From Docker Compose Chaos to Kubernetes Clarity
How a 2023 avalanche of server crashes, a very calm-but-not-calm CEO on Slack, and 40 containers running on pure optimism finally pushed me to learn Kubernetes.
KubernetesDockerDevOps
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