Notes on cloud architecture, distributed systems, and building infrastructure at scale — drawn from the inside.
Shipping networking to government cloud regions taught me that the boring path from commit to production is the real feature. Why the invisible plumbing inside AWS is where reliability, cost, and speed are actually won.
At hyperscale, the goal isn't to prevent failure — it's to make failure small, boring, and survivable. Notes on cell-based design from years spent on EC2's software-defined networking control plane.