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Migrating a national news site to a headless CMS with a 30-second cutover

A flagship media site moved off a decade-old in-house CMS onto Storyblok with launch day as the cutover. A load test built from real traffic, a canary on the existing CDN, and a rehearsed switch turned a five-to-fifteen-minute outage estimate into under 30 seconds.

Stopping email-blast HEAD storms from taking down a legacy news site

Every marketing email took the site down for minutes as mail-client link scanners flooded the origin. Five rounds of fixes across nginx, the WAF, cache headers, and PHP-FPM timeouts took p99 from 2.7 s to 1.2 s and made the busiest scanner month on record the most reliable.

Cutting a Laravel monorepo's CI from nine minutes to three without touching a test

A nine-minute pull request gate became 2m 44s, queue wait dropped from over a minute to two seconds, and about 70 engineer-hours a month came back, for roughly $150 a month in runners.

Crew: SOC2 Type 1 Compliance & AWS Cost Optimization

A sub-10 person fintech passed SOC2 Type 1 and cut AWS spend 42% without pulling engineers off product.