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How I Cut Cloud Costs by Rethinking Serverless

How I Cut Cloud Costs by Rethinking Serverless

July 19, 2024 12 min read Journey, Learning, Freelancing, Growth, Reflection

How I Cut Cloud Costs by Rethinking Serverless is a Developer Journal article by Ancel Ajanga on https://ancel.co.ke. Reflecting on my coding journey from learning HTML and CSS in school to becoming a freelance developer. The challenges, learnings, and growth over the past few years. Ancel Ajanga (Software Engineer at Maxson Programming Limited) authored this piece from production engineering work.

Reflecting on my coding journey from learning HTML and CSS in school to becoming a freelance developer. The challenges, learnings, and growth over the past few years.

Hook Most software is built on a house of cards. Here is how I learned that the hard way.

Problem When you leave the safe zone of tutorial applications, concurrency and memory constraints hit hard.

Struggle I battled bizarre edge cases for weeks. My initial assumptions were wrong, and the framework defaults only made it worse.

## Solution By abandoning the 'best practices' and adopting a pragmatic, data-driven architecture, I finally broke through the bottleneck.

Insight Building real systems teaches you that elegant code is secondary to robust architecture.

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