Briefings archive
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Featured · Cloud Refactoring
Refactoring Bloated EKS Estates: A 90-Day Cost Anatomy
A field-tested teardown of how a mid-size SaaS team trimmed 38% of their EKS spend without freezing roadmap delivery.
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Refactoring Bloated EKS Estates: A 90-Day Cost Anatomy A field-tested teardown of how a mid-size SaaS team trimmed 38% of their EKS spend without freezing roadmap delivery.
₩4,200,000 Platform Engineering Without the Platform Team Halo How a four-person platform group at a logistics startup built developer experience without becoming a permanent gatekeeper.
₩2,400,000 Strangler Fig in the Real World: Migrating a 12-Year Java Monolith A patient, year-long modernization of a Java 8 monolith for a regional retail platform, told without the usual triumphalism.
₩7,600,000 Observability That Survives a Cost Review A practitioner-led look at trimming observability spend without losing the signals that matter during incidents.
₩3,800,000 Refactoring Team Workflow Before You Refactor the Code A short, opinionated briefing on how engineering throughput is shaped by ceremonies and review queues, not just architecture.
₩2,400,000 Quiet Migrations: Decommissioning a Legacy Auth Service A careful, low-drama account of decommissioning a homegrown auth service and the eight months of preparation it required.
₩9,100,000 A Small Dictionary of Cloud Cost Anti-Patterns A working glossary of the cost anti-patterns we encounter most often on advisory engagements, with concrete refactoring moves.
₩2,400,000 When Not to Adopt a Service Mesh A measured argument against rushing into service mesh adoption, backed by the patterns we keep observing on advisory calls.
₩2,400,000 A Thin Slice of Modernization: Pilot Refactoring in Six Weeks A six-week pilot refactor for an enterprise platform team that needed early evidence before committing to a multi-quarter program.
₩11,800,000