Writing
Production notes from database platforms, Terraform at scale, and platform engineering.
2026
- Treating AI Agents Like Infrastructure: Provisioning Hermes Agent with Ansible
Why I provision my AI agent the same way I provision cloud infrastructure — and the patterns that make it reproducible.
- Migrating 50 Production Databases to Aurora with Under 3 Minutes of Downtime
The methodology behind 50+ production MySQL-to-Aurora migrations — because the downtime budget is a design input, not something you measure afterward.
- 20+ AWS Services in One terraform apply — Built for the New Free Plan
AWS's new Free Plan has landmines: every ElastiCache node burns credits now, DynamoDB on-demand bypasses Always Free. One module, validated constraints, 20+ services.
2024
- Vitess vs Aurora: Making the Right MySQL Scaling Decision
Production-tested comparison of Vitess and Aurora for MySQL scaling. Includes performance benchmarks, cost analysis, and a decision framework based on 3 years of operational experience.