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Building robust, scalable platforms for developers

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Latest thoughts and experiments from my software engineering journey.

Taxonomize Your Infrastructure

A systematic approach to thinking about infrastructure categorization for better design, maintainability, and longevity.

September 19, 2025 8 min read by Matt Boisvert
infrastructure devops

Infrastructure Lifecycle Sandbox

From commit to production, with style

Every component in a system has a journey. This dashboard visualizes that journey as changes are made and different pieces interact.

Note: This is a simple simulation that will evolve over time

Cluster Status

web-01
Healthy
api-01
Scaling
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Stable

Deployment Status

Code Commit
Completed
Build & Test
In progress
Deploy to Staging
Pending
Deploy to Production
Pending

Real-time Metrics

CPU Usage
67%
↗︎ 12% from last hour
Memory
82%
↘︎ 8% from last hour
Network
45%
↗︎ 5% from last hour

Live Activity Feed

Pod web-app-7d8f9 scaled to 3 replicas just now
New deployment v2.1.4 rolled out 2m ago
High CPU usage detected on node-2 5m ago
Service discovery updated 8m ago
Database connection pool optimized 12m ago