How real production decisions actually got made — deployment, edge/hardware integration, and reliability, from systems I've built and operated end to end.
Migrating a production Django platform (Garaad) off a single DigitalOcean droplet — with no SSH keys and no long-lived AWS access keys anywhere.
Bridging a cloud POS platform (FranchiseTech) to physical till hardware — protocol standardization, local-server security, and why "sent" and "confirmed" are never the same word.
Designing an offline sale queue for a production till — why navigator.onLine isn't enough, classifying checkout failures correctly, and failing loudly on purpose.