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Practical resources about infrastructure for software engineers.

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Designing Reliable Infrastructure

Infrastructure is the platform your applications run on. From cloud networking and load balancing to service meshes and auto-scaling policies, the decisions you make here affect availability, latency, and operational cost for years.

Find guides on infrastructure as code with Terraform, Kubernetes deployment patterns, reverse proxy configuration, and SSL certificate automation. Each resource is built from real-world experience running production workloads on AWS, GCP, and Azure.

intermediate

Configure Nginx as a Reverse Proxy and API Gateway

How to use Nginx as a reverse proxy for backend services, implement load balancing, SSL termination, and rate limiting for production API gateways

beginner

Local Microservices Development with Docker Compose

Orchestrate multi-service local environments with Docker Compose including databases, caches, message brokers, and reverse proxies with hot reload and shared networks

advanced

Canary Deployments with Istio Service Mesh

How to use Istio traffic splitting to perform safe canary deployments by gradually shifting user traffic between application versions

intermediate

Load Balancing with HAProxy and Health Checks

Configure HAProxy as a high-performance load balancer with active health checks, sticky sessions, and SSL termination for resilient service distribution

intermediate

Provision an AWS VPC with Terraform

How to use Terraform to provision a production-ready AWS VPC with public and private subnets, NAT gateways, and security groups

intermediate

Ambassador Pattern for Resilient Remote Service Access

Add a local ambassador that handles retries, circuit breaking, and monitoring when calling remote services, keeping the client simple and the service logic pure

intermediate

Capacity Planning Template

A reusable template for planning system capacity, estimating growth, and preventing performance bottlenecks before they happen.