Push to Prod
Engineering deep dives, product updates, and hard-won lessons on shipping backends without babysitting infrastructure.
ECS vs EKS: how should a startup choose?
ECS is simpler and serves the short term well; EKS rewards teams that already know Kubernetes. How to decide between them — and when paying the Kubernetes cost now beats paying it later.
Read the postUnderstanding Docker caching
Which layers get cached, what invalidates them, and how caching works across machines — from the built-in layer cache and cache mounts on your laptop to registry-based cache-from/cache-to for a whole CI/CD fleet.
Read the post5 tips to improve the security of your Kubernetes infrastructure
Most cluster compromises don't hinge on zero-days — they hinge on defaults nobody tightened. Five hardening steps, from disabling token automount to Kyverno and Cilium, that would have contained the attacks making headlines.
Read the postFrom git push to production: what actually happens when ModStack deploys your backend
A deploy is easy to trigger and hard to do well. Here's the full journey of a ModStack deploy — build, rollout, and routing — and the guardrails at each step that keep a bad push from becoming a bad day.
Read the postMore posts are on the way — deep dives on modules, zero-downtime upgrades, and running ModStack on your own metal.
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