Infrastructure & Delivery

All Articles (3 articles)

• Edge Delivery and Cache Invalidation

  Platform Engineering / Infrastructure & Delivery 15 min read

  Production CDN caching architecture for balancing content freshness against cache efficiency. Covers cache key design, invalidation strategies (path-based, tag-based, versioned URLs), stale-while-revalidate patterns, and edge compute use cases—with specific focus on design tradeoffs, operational failure modes, and the thundering herd problem that senior engineers encounter during cache-related incidents.

• Deployment Strategies: Blue-Green, Canary, and Rolling

  Platform Engineering / Infrastructure & Delivery 19 min read

  Production deployment strategies for balancing release velocity against blast radius. Covers the architectural trade-offs between blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments—with specific focus on traffic shifting mechanics, database migration coordination, automated rollback criteria, and operational failure modes that senior engineers encounter during incident response.

• SSG Performance Optimizations: Build, Cache, and Delivery

  Platform Engineering / Infrastructure & Delivery 20 min read

  Production-grade Static Site Generation (SSG) architecture for AWS CloudFront delivery. Covers atomic deployments, pre-compression strategies, Lambda@Edge routing patterns, and Core Web Vitals optimization—with specific focus on design tradeoffs and operational failure modes that senior engineers encounter in production.