A practical breakdown of containerizing and deploying applications on AWS with proper secrets management — architecture decisions, IAM patterns, and what actually works in production.

A full breakdown of building a push-to-deploy pipeline on Kubernetes — Flask webhook orchestration, RBAC, network policy isolation, blue-green deployments, and automated rollback.

Two separate failures, one post. A CI/CD pipeline that silently reverted working code, and a pitch that fell apart in real time in front of judges.