Three years ago, I inherited a distributed system that processed insurance claims across twelve microservices. The orchestration logic lived in a tangled web of message queues, retry handlers, and compensating transactions scattered across multiple codebases. When something failed—and in distributed systems, something always fails—debugging meant correlating logs across a dozen services while the business waited […]
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The Serverless Revolution: Why AWS Lambda Changed Everything I Thought I Knew About Building Scalable Systems
🎓 AUTHORITY NOTE Drawing from 20+ years of enterprise architecture experience and having migrated dozens of production systems to serverless, representing millions of Lambda invocations monthly. This is battle-tested, production-proven knowledge. Executive Summary There’s a moment in every architect’s career when a technology fundamentally rewrites your mental model of how systems should work. For me, […]
Read more →The Serverless Revolution: Why AWS Lambda Changed How We Think About Infrastructure
When AWS Lambda launched in 2014, it fundamentally changed how we think about infrastructure. No servers to provision, no capacity to plan, no patches to apply—just code that runs when events occur, billed by the millisecond. AWS Lambda Event-Driven Architecture The Mental Model Shift Traditional infrastructure starts with capacity planning: How many servers? What instance […]
Read more →AWS Compute Services Deep Dive: EC2, Lambda, ECS, and EKS (Part 2 of 6)
AWS offers a comprehensive range of compute services from virtual machines to serverless functions. This guide covers EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, and Fargate with practical deployment examples using AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and Terraform. 📚 AWS FUNDAMENTALS SERIES This is Part 2 of a 6-part series covering AWS Cloud Platform for developers. Part 1: Fundamentals – […]
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