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A collection of deep dives into cloud infrastructure, systems internals, and distributed networks.
Visualising 70 Years of Formula 1 as a Graph Network
A data-driven look at Formula 1 history through drivers, champions, eras, nationalities, and network graphs.
Formula 1F1Data VisualizationGraph NetworksNetwork ScienceSports Analytics
Jun 22 • Adrian Gabardo • 20 min read
Reducing 1.1 years of compute time — every single day
Cutting Lambda costs by $1M/year without changing infrastructure or traffic
AWSLambdaCost
May 22 • Adrian Gabardo • 13 min read
From 8 Hours to 20 Minutes: Deploying an MVP to Production
Why we spent 8 hours babysitting CloudFormation and how we automated our way out
MVPDeploymentsAWS
Apr 28 • Adrian Gabardo • 10 min read
How a simple S3 design decision turned into a $7M cost
The hidden tax of 1.5 trillion objects and why your lifecycle policies might be a financial time bomb.
AWSS3Cost
Apr 20 • Adrian Gabardo • 12 min read
Extending the Flight Search Engine: Time, Cost, and Feasibility constraints
Graph series - part 4
GraphSearch EngineAWS
Apr 14 • Adrian Gabardo • 15 min read
The S3 at Scale Runbook
Detecting and fixing cardinality explosions in production buckets
AWSS3Runbook
Mar 31 • Adrian Gabardo • 18 min read
Oncall Nihilism
Why Your Pager is a Design Failure
OncallReliabilitySRE
Mar 24 • Adrian Gabardo • 8 min read
Implementing a flight search engine
Graph traversal with an IDFFS algorithm
GraphAlgorithmsIDFFS
Mar 17 • Adrian Gabardo • 14 min read