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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL5d ago • 3 min read
Opinion: We Ditched All Third-Party Mobile SDKs – Cut App Startup Time by 30% for iOS 18
Opinion: We Ditched All Third-Party Mobile SDKs – Cut App Startup Time by 30% for iOS...
#opinion#ditched#thirdparty#mobile
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL4d ago • 3 min read
We Ditched Terraform 1.10 for CloudFormation: Reducing IaC Complexity for Our Small AWS Team
We Ditched Terraform 1.10 for CloudFormation: Reducing IaC Complexity for Our Small AWS...
#ditched#terraform#cloudformation#reducing
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL5d ago • 14 min read
We Ditched Google Authenticator 2026 for Speakeasy 2 and Reduced Our Next.js 15 2FA Setup Time by 50%
In Q1 2026, our team audited 14 2FA libraries for Next.js 15 and found that migrating from Google...
#ditched#google#authenticator#2026
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL5d ago • 3 min read
War Story: I Ditched My CS Degree for a Bootcamp and Became a Go 1.25 Engineer
War Story: I Ditched My CS Degree for a Bootcamp and Became a Go 1.25 Engineer I never...
#story#ditched#degree#bootcamp
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL5d ago • 15 min read
We Ditched New Relic for Grafana 11.0 and Prometheus 3.0 and Saved $80k/Year: A 2026 Observability Case Study
In Q1 2026, our 12-person backend engineering team at a mid-sized fintech startup cut annual...
#ditched#relic#grafana#prometheus
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL6d ago • 4 min read
Why we ditched the Next.js Image component for a sharp‑based pipeline and saved 60% bandwidth
Ditch Next.js Image for Sharp Pipeline: 60% Bandwidth Saved When we first built our...
#ditched#nextjs#image#component
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHALMay 1, 2026 • 15 min read
We Ditched MongoDB 8.0 for CockroachDB 24.1 and Achieved 99.999% Uptime in 2026
In Q1 2026, our 14-person engineering team at FleetOps (a logistics SaaS for 12k enterprise...
#ditched#mongodb#cockroachdb#achieved
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL6d ago • 3 min read
War Story: We Ditched FastAPI 0.109 for Spring Boot 3.3 and Cut API Latency by 30% for Java Teams
War Story: We Ditched FastAPI 0.109 for Spring Boot 3.3 and Cut API Latency by 30% for Java...
#story#ditched#fastapi#0109
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL3d ago • 3 min read
Opinion: Why We Ditched vLLM 0.4 for Triton Inference Server 2.45: 33% Higher LLM Throughput for Production
Opinion: Why We Ditched vLLM 0.4 for Triton Inference Server 2.45: 33% Higher LLM Throughput...
#opinion#ditched#vllm#triton
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL6d ago • 15 min read
We Ditched Heroku and Netlify for AWS Amplify and SST: 2026 Migration Postmortem
In Q1 2026, our 14-person engineering team migrated 12 production workloads—serving 4.2M monthly...
#ditched#heroku#netlify#amplify
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL3d ago • 14 min read
We Ditched Heroku for AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Here's Why We Saved 40% on Costs
In Q3 2024, our 12-person engineering team at a Series B fintech startup stared down a $42,000...
#ditched#heroku#elastic#beanstalk
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL5d ago • 4 min read
Why I Ditched Yargs for Cobra 1.8: 2x Faster CLI Performance
Why I Ditched Yargs for Cobra 1.8: 2x Faster CLI Performance For the past three years,...
#ditched#yargs#cobra#faster
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHALMay 1, 2026 • 12 min read
We Ditched React for Vue 4: 6 Months of Reduced Bundle Size and 20% Faster Render Times
Six months ago, our 14-person frontend team at a Series C fintech startup made the controversial cal...
#ditched#react#months#reduced
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL6d ago • 4 min read
We Ditched Docker 25.0 for Podman 5.0: Lessons Learned from 100 Production Container Migrations
We Ditched Docker 25.0 for Podman 5.0: Lessons Learned from 100 Production Container...
#ditched#docker#podman#lessons
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL6d ago • 3 min read
We Ditched Haystack 1.0 for LangChain 0.3: Cut RAG Accuracy by 20%? No, Increased by 50%
We Ditched Haystack 1.0 for LangChain 0.3: Cut RAG Accuracy by 20%? No, Increased by...
#ditched#haystack#langchain#accuracy
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL3d ago • 13 min read
We Ditched kubectl 1.31 for k9s 0.32 – Cut Cluster Debug Time by 50%
For 14 months, our 17-person platform team spent 32% of our weekly engineering hours wrestling with....
#ditched#kubectl#cluster#debug
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHALMay 1, 2026 • 3 min read
We Ditched Pluralsight 5 for O'Reilly 2026: Cut Learning Time 30% for New Technologies
We Ditched Pluralsight 5 for O'Reilly 2026: Cut Learning Time 30% for New Technologies For...
#ditched#pluralsight#oreilly#2026
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL6d ago • 3 min read
We Ditched Zoom 6.0 for Slack 5.0 Huddles: 25% Faster Daily Standups
We Ditched Zoom 6.0 for Slack 5.0 Huddles: 25% Faster Daily Standups For 18 months, our...
#ditched#zoom#slack#huddles
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL6d ago • 13 min read
Contrarian View: We Ditched Multi-Region Kubernetes 1.36 for Single Region and Saved 40% on Networking Costs
After 14 months running multi-region Kubernetes 1.36 across us-east-1 and eu-west-2, we tore down th...
#contrarian#view#ditched#multiregion
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL3d ago • 15 min read
War Story: We Ditched LinkedIn for BlueSky and Cut Recruiter Spam by 70%
By the end of Q3 2024, our 15-person backend engineering team was averaging 42 unsolicited recruiter...
#story#ditched#linkedin#bluesky
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL5d ago • 16 min read
We Ditched NLTK for SpaCy 3.7 and Hugging Face, Reducing NLP Processing Time by 60%
After 8 years of relying on NLTK for production NLP pipelines, our team cut per-document processing....
#ditched#nltk#spacy#hugging
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL6d ago • 16 min read
War Story: We Ditched Blue-Green Deployments for Canary and Cut Deployment Risk 50%
In Q3 2024, our team’s blue-green deployments caused 3 production outages in 6 weeks, costing $142k....
#story#ditched#bluegreen#deployments
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL4d ago • 3 min read
We Ditched Nagios for Prometheus 3.0 and Grafana 11: 40% Faster Incident Response
We Ditched Nagios for Prometheus 3.0 and Grafana 11: 40% Faster Incident Response After 5...
#ditched#nagios#prometheus#grafana
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ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL5d ago • 17 min read
Hot Take: We Ditched $500k Google Offers for Startup Equity and Cut Work Hours by 40% in 2026
In Q1 2026, 14 senior engineers from Google’s Core Infrastructure team collectively turned down $7.2...
#take#ditched#500k#google
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