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Field notes from production: Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, database migrations, and real SRE war stories from running infrastructure at 99.99% uptime.

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Ankit Bhardwaj's career: from web developer to Site Reliability Engineer. 12+ years across telecom, financial data, and healthcare. AWS & Terraform certified.

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Get in touch with Ankit Bhardwaj — Site Reliability Engineer & DevOps specialist. Reach out by email, LinkedIn, GitHub, or contact form. Chandigarh, India.

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Practical strategies that meaningfully cut my Kubernetes cluster costs on AWS — right-sizing, cluster autoscaling, spot instances, and storage optimization.

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An idle public IP sat on my EC2 instance for months, billing me for nothing. The fix was simple — I'd just lacked the confidence to do it without downtime.

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We migrated Aurora to RDS with zero downtime — then quietly paid for two databases for two months. The fix wasn't more knowledge. It was a forcing function.

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Most of us use the same 20% of Terraform daily. The rest turned up two features I wish I'd known sooner: ephemeral blocks and DynamoDB-free state locking.

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Selected work: XIRR Ledger serverless finance tool, zero-downtime AWS migrations, Kubernetes platform engineering, and full-stack builds across industries.

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Everyone treats Aurora as the premium PostgreSQL choice on AWS. But for regulated healthcare workloads, what mattered was how fast CVE patches actually land.

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Our Aurora to RDS cutover went perfectly — pgcopydb, logical replication, all of it. Then the app wrote to RDS and every insert exploded. The cause: sequences.