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SOC2 readiness checklist for engineering teams under twenty people

A yes-or-no checklist across identity, AWS, change management, people, policies, vendors, incident response, and the evidence platform, in the order the work should happen, plus the one item no framework lists: keeping the AWS bill from tripling while you do it.

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OpenSearch vs PostgreSQL for application search: when Postgres is enough

Search engines earn their complexity at web scale. Below it, a well-indexed Postgres often wins on latency, cost, and operations. How to tell which side of the line you are on, and how to prove it with replayed production queries.

Preview environments per pull request on Kubernetes: what is actually hard

Creating an environment per pull request is a week of work. Living with fifty of them is the project. The options, the database problem, lifecycle and cleanup, and what we would do again after 1,470 deploys.

ECS vs EKS: when moving is worth it, and what it actually saves

ECS cannot bin-pack, and that is the whole cost argument. Here is how to tell from two weeks of utilization data whether a migration would pay, what it costs you in operations, and the order to move things in.