MAMubarak Alhazaninpoly4.hashnode.dev·May 29 · 11 min readWhy Rate Limiting Alone Won't Stop OTP Abuse — A Real Incident BreakdownThe Attack That Looked Like Normal Traffic On a perfectly normal Tuesday morning, while the team was getting into their usual flow, we quietly noticed that our SendGrid email delivery was behaving str01B
MAMubarak Alhazaninpoly4.hashnode.dev·Mar 29 · 8 min readHow to Import Existing AWS Resources into the Serverless Framework (Using CloudFormation Import)Introduction While working on a project to fully transition an application into Infrastructure as Code (IaC), I encountered a challenge that proved more difficult than I expected: importing existing A10
MAMubarak Alhazaninpoly4.hashnode.dev·Jan 18 · 6 min readWebflow CMS Behind CloudFront: Serving Dynamic and Static Pages on the Same DomainIntroduction A prevalent way to deploy a frontend on AWS is to use S3, CloudFront, and Route 53. It’s simple and cost-effective. Many teams begin here and successfully run this setup for years. It’s also very common for teams to eventually move some ...10
MAMubarak Alhazaninpoly4.hashnode.dev·Oct 18, 2025 · 7 min readCooking Without Burning: My DevOps Doings in the Past Few YearsDevOps, much like cooking, is all about balance. Too little automation, and the process stays raw; too much change without control, and something catches fire. Over the past few years, I’ve spent countless hours in the kitchen, experimenting with too...11F
MAMubarak Alhazaninpoly4.hashnode.dev·Jun 2, 2025 · 10 min readBuilding a Subtitle Service for Your App Using AWS TranscribeIntroduction Over the past two years, I've worked on three different video learning platforms. A recurring requirement across these projects has been subtitles, regardless of the target audience, tech stack, or business goal. Subtitles are essential ...10
