Google Analytics felt like too much. I wanted lightweight, privacy-respecting analytics for my portfolio — but also full control. So I built a fully automated Plausible deployment using AKS, Helm, cert-manager, and Azure Front Door. Here’s how it works.

Ship with Confidence, Not Just Speed. Preview links are just the beginning — discover how full-stack ephemeral environments supercharge testing, reduce bugs, and bring engineering, product, and marketing into perfect launch alignment. Learn the practical steps to implement scalable, PR-specific deployments in modern microservice architectures.

Most teams treat their dead letter queue as a trash bin. In reality, it’s your system’s early warning system—revealing blind spots, broken assumptions, and operational weaknesses. This post explores how mishandling DLQs can quietly poison your healthy queues, spike infrastructure costs, and erode user trust—and what mature engineering teams do instead.

A brief API outage became a full-blown incident—not because the system failed, but because every client retried at the same time. Poorly implemented retries don’t just add noise. They can take down healthy services, overload your infrastructure, and turn transient blips into cascading failures. Here’s what smarter retries look like—and how to design them for real-world resilience.

What if you could change your entire domain, modernize your brand, and preserve every single backlink — with zero downtime? I just pulled it off using Azure Front Door, smart DNS strategy, and canonical best practices. Here’s how you can too.