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Performance
The Decisions, Near-Disasters, and 35% Cost Savings from Rebuilding a Live Bidding Engine
Why Redis and not Kafka? Why Fargate and not Kubernetes? And what happened in staging that nearly derailed the entire migration? The honest debrief, tradeoffs, the mistake that almost broke production, and the final results.
May 27, 2026 · 8 min read→