lsBlog
Technical notes. What I've learned by building.
Categories
Filter by tag
- 2026-04-26engineering4 min read
Build vs buy on AWS: when self-hosted compute beats managed.
Managed services bill per output. Self-hosted compute has a fixed base. The economics cross, and it pays to know where the crossover is before you commit.
- 2026-04-11engineering6 min read
SQS between services, not just for long jobs.
Synchronous calls are the default reflex. Half of them shouldn't be. A queue between producer and consumer changes the failure shape of your whole system.