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From 0 to SOC 2 Type II in 90 days — the engineering timeline nobody publishes

Apr 22 · 6 min read · Month 1 — The gap analysis and the quick wins that build momentum The gap analysis is demoralising. You connect Vanta to your AWS account, GitHub, and Kubernetes cluster. The dashboard refreshes. Red.

How a $2.3M/year AWS bill became $1.4M in 14 days - without touching the product

Apr 20 · 6 min read · Company profile and starting point Thirty-five-person fintech startup. Series B. Processing payment data for 12,000 business customers across the US and Canada. AWS bill: $192,000 per month - $2.3M

ArgoCD vs manual kubectl — I measured the difference in deploy confidence at a 15-person startup over 6 months

Apr 10 · 4 min read · What deploy confidence actually means Deploy confidence is not a feeling. It is a measurable state. An engineer who is deploy-confident pushes to main without hesitation because they know that if some

The Platform Engineering maturity model nobody talks about — what stages 1 through 5 actually look like in a 20-person startup

Apr 10 · 8 min read · Why every maturity model you have read is useless Most Platform Engineering maturity models are written by enterprise architects describing enterprise problems. They reference DORA metrics across 47 t