Production Insights is a collection of engineering lessons learned from real-world challenges I encountered while designing, building, and operating production systems. The goal is to share the reasoning behind architectural decisions, the trade-offs involved, and the practical approaches used to address reliability, scalability, observability, and operational challenges in production environments.

Kafka Is Not Always the Solution
We Deployed Faster. We Failed Faster.
RabbitMQ Was Never Our Job Runner. We Stopped Mixing Communication with Execution.
Dead Letter Queues: The Last Line Of Defense Against Silent Failure
We Thought Our API Gateway Would Protect Us. It Became Our Biggest Single Point of Failure