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We migrated 40 services to a monorepo. Here is the honest ledger.
Eighteen months in, the costs and benefits side by side. Not a recommendation either way.
Press passNo. 0001Priya Nandan
Founder & Principal SRE
at Ridgeline Cloud. Migrations, on-call and infrastructure decisions that are hard to reverse.
Berlin, GermanyMember since Apr 2026
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In Priya’s words
I have run infrastructure and on-call for companies from ten to a few hundred engineers. Ridgeline is the consultancy I wish had existed when I was making these decisions myself, under pressure, for the first time.
On Aqvil since Apr 26, 2026 · Berlin, Germany
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The three-hour deploy that taught us to fear big-bang migrations
A database migration that should have taken twenty minutes, what actually went wrong, and the rollback plan that saved us.
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Postgres full-text search is enough until it isn't. Here is where the line is.
We put off adding a dedicated search service for two years. A tutorial on getting real search out of Postgres, and the signals that told us to move on.
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What we check before recommending Kubernetes to a client
A short checklist we run before every infrastructure proposal, because the honest answer is often 'not yet.'
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Our on-call rotation before and after we started tracking MTTR
We assumed our incident response was fine because nobody complained. The data said otherwise.