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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 (Systems Engineer & Fullstack Developer) 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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