July 1, 2026
How I cut AWS NAT Gateway costs by 30% with VPC endpoints
Replacing public egress for Kinesis and Firehose with VPC private endpoints eliminated unnecessary NAT Gateway traffic.
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Lessons and patterns from production infrastructure work.
June 15, 2026
Running 18 EKS clusters with a 2-person platform team
Patterns and trade-offs for operating many production Kubernetes clusters without a large platform team.
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May 20, 2026
Lessons from recovering 14,000 authentication tokens in production
How Python automation, Athena queries, and encrypted restoration workflows brought 14k auth tokens back from DynamoDB during a production incident.
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