Cloud architecture
Practical notes on AWS, system boundaries, and infrastructure trade-offs.
atistar.com
Notes on cloud architecture, backend systems, and practical AI.
A place to share what I am building, learning, and thinking through as an engineer.
Focus areas
What this site is about
The goal is simple: write things that are useful to another engineer trying to make a good decision.
Backend systems
Application design, APIs, reliability, and the messy details behind solid services.
Practical AI
Useful experiments, workflows, and engineering lessons from real tool usage.
Featured posts
A few good starting points
The site begins with a small set of posts that reflect the tone and technical direction of the project.
2 min read
Practical AWS architecture tradeoffs for small products
Where simple static hosting helps, where it does not, and how to avoid solving the wrong infrastructure problem too early.
- aws
- architecture
- cloud
1 min read
Backend systems and boring reliability
A few habits that make services easier to reason about long after the launch energy has faded.
- backend
- systems
- reliability
1 min read
Practical AI tooling for engineers
The value of AI tools is rarely in replacing engineering work. It is in reducing drag around the work that still needs judgment.
- ai
- tooling
- engineering
Currently exploring
- How simple infrastructure choices keep small projects maintainable.
- What makes technical writing useful instead of ornamental.
- Where AI tooling helps real engineering work and where it does not.