Top costly mistakes

Amazon Web Services us-east-1 is the most critical AWS region, powering a massive portion of global internet infrastructure from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

By 2021, Meta Platforms powered not just social media, but global communication itself. Billions relied on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp daily - for messaging, business, and even emergency coordination.

By 2017, Amazon S3 had quietly become the backbone of the modern internet. From startups to global giants, countless applications depended on it to serve images, videos, APIs, and critical data. Most users didn’t know it - but the internet was standing on AWS.

Cloudflare sits between users and millions of websites, providing security, CDN, and DDoS protection. A huge portion of the internet flows through Cloudflare’s edge network.

By 2020, Google wasn’t just a search engine it was identity infrastructure for the internet. Gmail, YouTube, Drive, Meet, and countless third-party apps depended on Google’s authentication systems.

I built a project called “Jmail”—a Gmail-style interface to browse a large dataset (the Epstein files). It wasn’t meant to be huge. Just a useful interface. I deployed it on Vercel because it was easy. One-click deploy. No infra headaches.

I built my app using Firebase because it was fast to get started no backend needed, everything just worked.

PocketOS operated as a SaaS platform for car rental businesses, running on cloud infrastructure with shared storage volumes across staging and production. An AI coding agent inside Cursor, powered by a model from Anthropic, was granted execution capabilities within this environment. The system served real customers with live transactional data. A small engineering team managed infrastructure, application logic, and deployments. Stakeholders included rental operators, end users, developers, and infrastructure providers such as Railway.

In the early 1980s, the Therac-25 was marketed as a cutting-edge medical breakthrough—a radiation therapy machine controlled almost entirely by software. It was faster, more efficient, and required fewer hardware safety mechanisms than its predecessors. It was also dangerously flawed.

195+ days of negotiations and $11k in loss for VPS that nobody used