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Architecture pattern articles focus on boundaries, request flow, failure handling, observability, and cost trade-offs rather than diagram theater.
Architecture content on the internet has a problem. It's either too abstract (boxes and arrows with no implementation) or too specific (a tutorial for one service that doesn't explain the system it fits into). InfraTales patterns sit in the middle.
Every pattern here includes five things most architecture content skips: the system pressure that makes this shape necessary, when you should NOT use it, the failure edges you'll hit in production, what it actually costs to run, and the operational requirements your team needs to support it. If a pattern can't answer "what breaks first?", it's not ready to publish.
Each pattern links to a GitHub repo with sanitized CDK or Terraform code. That's not sample code - it's production-derived infrastructure that's been through a real deployment. The code won't run against your account without changes (credentials, account IDs, region config), but the architecture decisions and IAM patterns are directly reusable.
Read the article first for the reasoning and trade-offs. Check the decision criteria to see if the pattern fits your constraints. Then look at the linked GitHub repo for the actual CDK/Terraform code, docs, and architecture diagrams.
Not "it deploys without errors." Production-grade means: IAM follows least-privilege, encryption is on by default, monitoring exists, failure recovery is documented, and cost is understood. The boring stuff that keeps systems running.
If you've built something production-grade on AWS and want to contribute a pattern, reach out at hello@rahulladumor.com. InfraTales patterns come from real deployments, not hypothetical designs.
AWS Architecture
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
Reliability, Observability, Cost
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