(ALMOST) EVERY INFRASTRUCTURE DECISION I ENDORSE OR REGRET AFTER 4 YEARS RUNNING INFRASTRUCTURE AT A STARTUP

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

An infrastructure lead had to make various infrastructure decisions for a startup over the past four years. He endorses choosing AWS, RDS, and Redis ElastiCache, but regrets opting for other things, like AWS’s premium support. He also recommends considering dependency management and identity platforms earlier rather than later in order to save the company from a painful migration later on.