Backend Engineer

Building systems that scale.

Years of experience shipping production systems. I write about the tools, patterns, and lessons from real-world engineering.

Building systems that scale.

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Why Multi-Zone Clusters Are Non-Negotiable for Production

To reduce infrastructure costs, our production environment ran on a single-zone Kubernetes cluster. At the time, that was a reasonable trade-off: traffic and operational scope were modest, and…

July 6, 2026 3 min read Kubernetes Production