After spending two decades building and scaling engineering organizations, I’ve come to a conclusion that might seem counterintuitive: the biggest productivity killer in most enterprises isn’t technical debt, legacy systems, or even organizational politics. It’s cognitive load. Developers spend an unconscionable amount of time navigating infrastructure complexity instead of solving business problems. Platform engineering, done […]
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Mastering AWS EKS Deployment with Terraform: A Comprehensive Guide
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and widely adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. This foundational guide covers the essential concepts every developer and architect needs to master before building on AWS. 📚 AWS FUNDAMENTALS SERIES This is Part 1 of a 6-part series covering […]
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