Engineering Dispatch

Architectural Insights & Research

Field notes, post-mortems, and reference implementations from our cloud infrastructure, database, and security teams.

CLOUD & DEVOPS • 8 MIN READ

Zero-Downtime Multi-Region Kubernetes Failover on AWS

How we architected cross-region EKS cluster replication with Terraform, Route 53 latency routing, and ArgoCD GitOps to survive full AWS zone outages.

CYBERSECURITY • 11 MIN READ

The OWASP Top 10 Mistakes We Find in 90% of Pre-Launch Audits

A detailed breakdown of Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA), SSRF vulnerabilities, and JWT misconfigurations, accompanied by automated CI/CD guardrails.

DATA ARCHITECTURE • 9 MIN READ

Tuning PostgreSQL for 50,000 Reads/Sec: Indexes, Pools & Replicas

Practical strategies for optimizing query plans with EXPLAIN ANALYZE, configuring PgBouncer connection pools, and implementing Redis write-through caching.

FRONTEND & 3D • 7 MIN READ

Building 60FPS Scroll-Driven 3D Experiences with Three.js

Techniques for geometry instancing, procedural shader lighting, and memory management to achieve cinematic 3D web graphics without sacrificing Core Web Vitals.

CLOUD COST • 6 MIN READ

Slashing $30k/Month from an AWS Bill Without Sacrificing Uptime

Real-world case study right-sizing overprovisioned RDS instances, leveraging Graviton ARM instances, and replacing NAT gateways with VPC endpoints.

LOAD TESTING • 10 MIN READ

Simulating 100k Concurrent Users with Distributed k6 and Grafana

How to write realistic user journey scripts, run distributed load generators in Kubernetes, and pinpoint memory leaks and thread pool starvation.