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SQS is "reliable" only if you understand visibility timeout, dead-letter queues, and the silent failure mode where messages get processed twice. Standard vs FIFO, DLQ tuning, Lambda integration, and the patterns that make SQS reliable beyond its default settings.
Manoj V.Event-driven sounds elegant in design docs. Then a malformed event ships to a critical bus and you spend a weekend debugging fan-out. EventBridge buses, rules, schema discovery, cross-account patterns, and the failure modes you only learn about in production.
Manoj V.July 2026: EdTech serverless on AWS covering exam-day spikes, SQS grading buffers, CloudFront video egress, and a readiness checklist so load tests match Monday 9am reality.
Manoj V.ECS is "AWS-native containers." EKS is "Kubernetes, but you're still on the hook for everything Kubernetes." A decision guide for picking between ECS and EKS based on team Kubernetes experience, operational complexity, and the cost gap at production scale.
Manoj V.Most teams under-use Step Functions until they need it badly. Patterns for sequential pipelines, parallel fan-out, error handling, human approval workflows, and the cost optimisations that keep state-transition bills predictable.
Manoj V.Single-table design either works well for DynamoDB or turns into a six-month rewrite. This post covers SaaS access patterns, tenant isolation, GSI strategies, the patterns that suit multi-tenant apps on serverless DynamoDB, and the ones that get teams in trouble.
Manoj V.Silo, pool, or bridge isolation is a unit-economics decision you'll spend three years living with. A comparison framework for SaaS multi-tenancy on AWS, with the per-tenant cost trade-offs across scale tiers and the migration path for teams who picked wrong the first time.
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