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How we deploy, what we measure, and the infrastructure trade-offs that actually matter in production.

03 Engineering Jul 30, 2026

Running a production API with 1M requests/day

A million requests a day is about twelve requests a second — the number is a milestone, not a crisis. What actually keeps an API healthy at that volume is boring: the database, the queue, the cache, and an honest p99. Here is our playbook.

04 Case study Jul 26, 2026

Startup case study: scaling with Cynone

The story of a two-person startup that went from a Heroku bill that was eating the business to a stable platform at 100k users. The real numbers, the real mistakes, and the five lessons we would give any founder.

05 Engineering Jul 24, 2026

How Cynone achieves sub-second deployments

Sub-second deployments are not about building faster. They are about never rebuilding, never re-pulling, and swapping the container once it proves it is healthy. Here is exactly how we make the switchover land in under a second.

07 Architecture Jul 10, 2026

Edge vs serverless: when to use each

Edge functions and region-based serverless look similar on a feature matrix and behave nothing alike under load. Here is a practical decision procedure for choosing between them, and the hybrid pattern that works best.

08 Platform Jul 2, 2026

How we built our global deployment pipeline

Deploying the same artifact to five regions without breaking production took us from fragile shell scripts to a pipeline that can roll itself back. Here is how we built it, what we wired together, and what we would do differently.