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How a "Small Experiment" Took Down Our Entire Production — And What It Taught Me About How PostgreSQL Actually Works

Feb 16 · 17 min read · Picture this: it's 1:00 PM on a Wednesday. Peak hours. Your field team is out collecting data, clients are checking dashboards, and suddenly - everything stops working. That was us on February 12, 202

How We Slashed Our Next.js Docker Image Size by 35% (And Cut Build Time in Half)

Feb 12 · 5 min read · The Problem: 25 Minutes to Deploy? Seriously? Picture this: You push a hotfix to production, grab a coffee, chat with a colleague, check Slack, and your deployment is still running. That was our reality - 25 minutes from commit to deployment on Googl...

Deploying to EC2 Servers Using Jenkins and Ansible Locally

Jan 30 · 5 min read · Prerequisites Before we dive in, make sure you have: Docker installed on your local machine An AWS account with at least one EC2 instance running (Ubuntu/Debian-based recommended) Your EC2 .pem key file downloaded and stored safely Basic understa...

Deploying Your First Spring Boot App on AWS EC2 using Tomcat

Jan 23 · 3 min read · Step 1: Spin Up an EC2 Instance First, let's spin up the EC2 instance: Go to your AWS Console Navigate to EC2 Click "Create new instance" Name it whatever you want Important Notice: We'll need to SSH into the instance, so make sure you download...