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Sessions and JWTs are often treated as interchangeable authentication strategies. They're not. Understanding how each works — and where each breaks — is the difference between secure, scalable auth and a system that fights you at every turn.

Platform engineering is the discipline of building internal developer platforms that let product teams self-serve their infrastructure needs — here's what that actually means in practice.

How I use SST to deploy this portfolio on AWS with Lambda, CloudFront, and S3 — and why the bill is basically zero.

An introduction to this blog and what I plan to write about — backend engineering, distributed systems, and lessons learned the hard way in production.