Real numbers, real opinions, and lessons from shipping production apps.
Real pricing from production apps we've shipped — broken down by complexity tier, who you hire, and the post-launch costs nobody warns you about, with a quick budget calculator.
Ten battle-tested patterns for building secure, scalable AWS Lambda apps — cold starts, IAM least privilege, observability, and the mistakes that bite you in production.
We moved a production app from EC2 ($487/mo) to serverless ($73/mo) — an 85% cut. Real cost tables, performance benchmarks, code, and when each architecture actually wins.
A side-by-side AWS cost breakdown of EC2 vs serverless across five real workload scenarios — plus the 15% rule for telling which one is actually cheaper for your traffic.
A real optimization case study: how we cut a production healthcare platform's AWS bill by 85% while serving 50K daily users — the exact changes, in order of impact.
How AWS Lambda pricing actually works — requests, duration, and memory — with the free-tier thresholds and the optimization levers that cut your bill the most.
Which AWS services are HIPAA-eligible (RDS, Aurora, Lambda, EKS, DynamoDB), how to get a BAA, and the encryption, access-control, and audit setup we use in production healthcare apps.
How we took an AWS bill from $487/month to under $10 by migrating off WordPress on Lightsail to serverless — the architecture, the migration steps, and the final numbers.
Five practical AI tools small businesses can roll out today to automate busywork and cut operating costs — what each one does, what it costs, and where it fits.