InfraTales publishes deep technical guides, architecture teardowns, cost analyses, and failure-driven lessons for engineers and technical leaders building real systems on AWS.
The problem
You get a tutorial that works in a sandbox and breaks under real traffic.
You get a "best practices" list with no trade-offs, no cost picture, no failure modes.
You get architecture diagrams drawn by someone who has never operated the system they drew.
And when the 2am incident hits, none of it helps.
What InfraTales does differently
Every InfraTales article starts with real infrastructure code — actual CDK or Terraform that was built to solve a real problem. The content shows what decisions were made, why, what the alternatives were, and where things break. You get the full picture: architecture, cost, failure modes, and operational concerns. Not a tutorial. A decision support system.
Read these first
Running dev, staging, and prod on separate VPCs sounds clean until you need them to talk — and your Aurora failover has never actually been tested. This post walks through a real CDK TypeScript stack wiring Transit Gateway, Aurora Global Database, ECS Fargate, and Global Accelerator across three env
Most AWS accounts get hardened once by someone who no longer works there. This post walks through a CDK TypeScript stack that encodes VPC isolation, KMS key policies, IAM least-privilege, AWS Config rules, WAF, and CloudTrail into version-controlled, PR-reviewable infrastructure — so your security p
Most S3-to-Lambda setups skip CloudTrail data events entirely and pay for it later with brittle fan-out and zero audit trail. This post walks through a CDK TypeScript stack that routes S3 events through EventBridge properly — VPC placement, KMS encryption, Secrets Manager, cost model, and the failur
Wiring CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, and Auto Scaling in CDK sounds straightforward until your first real scale event cracks the deployment. This post walks the full architecture - VPC, ALB, ASG, SSM config, and the lifecycle hook settings that keep deploys clean under load.
Most CDK tutorials stop at 'it deployed.' This one covers the full aws cdk web application deployment stack - VPC isolation, Fargate on private subnets, Aurora with KMS, CloudFront, Secrets Manager rotation - and the six operational gaps that will wake you up at 2am if you skip them.
Your IAM permissions are a wiki page nobody trusts. This post walks through a CDK TypeScript stack that encodes KMS encryption, IAM roles, and RDS storage security as versioned, reviewable code - and covers the operational traps most tutorials skip entirely.
Case study
Migrated a QSR chain from a monolith to serverless. Handled 5M+ monthly orders at sub-200ms latency. Cut AWS spend by 40%. Built the deployment pipeline, observability layer, and failure recovery from scratch.
The full architecture breakdown is in the case studies archive.
Consulting
InfraTales also does focused consulting for teams that need judgment, trade-off clarity, and production experience instead of generic implementation capacity. Past clients include KFC Thailand, ASTM International, and ProdigyBuild.
Core publication areas
Start with the six most useful technical entry points, then move to the full topic directory if you need the wider taxonomy.
Architecture decisions, service boundaries, and production patterns for building on AWS.
Delivery systemsDeveloper platforms, deployment workflows, infrastructure as code, and the mechanics that keep teams shipping.
ResilienceIAM, failure isolation, recovery planning, defensive controls, and reliability work that survives the first incident.
EfficiencyFinOps, savings trade-offs, architecture-driven spend reduction, and the places optimization breaks production.