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Quiet Sunday, Loud Edge Cases: Fixing the Vidiprinter and Retiring the NAT Gateway

Platform Engineering

Quiet Sunday, Loud Edge Cases: Fixing the Vidiprinter and Retiring the NAT Gateway

A calm Sunday of live football turned into two edge-case bug fixes and the retirement of a $32/month piece of infrastructure.

The Compound Bug: When Two Quiet Flaws Conspire

Platform Engineering

The Compound Bug: When Two Quiet Flaws Conspire

One Saturday, two Premier League fixtures showed up on our schedule that weren't being played. Two others that were live had vanished. The root cause was two bugs that only mattered in combination.

Cutting Our AWS Bill by a Third in Two Weeks - Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering

Cutting Our AWS Bill by a Third in Two Weeks

Phase 6.5 Wave 1 shipped: SSM migration, adaptive polling, slimmed API calls, S3 versioning cleanup, and billing alarms. Targeting $35/mo savings.

Clearing the Decks Before Unreal — Platform Engineering cover

Platform Engineering

Clearing the Decks Before Unreal

A cleanup day before I install Unreal Engine: the vidiprinter that wouldn't stop growing, a Lambda payload that was silently dropping fixtures, a poller losing its final broadcast every cycle, and a navigation that finally makes sense.

Building an Off-Season Kill Switch for AWS

Platform Engineering

Building an Off-Season Kill Switch and News Pipeline Viewer for AWS

How we built admin tools to toggle 26 AWS services with one click, view curated news output, and fixed the pipeline bugs hiding in plain sight.

Platform Engineering

Fixing the Phantom Red Card

A yellow card showed as a sending off on our live vidiprinter. The fix revealed swapped type_ids, a fragile text check, and wrong penalty shootout codes.

Building Ball Watching: AI-powered football broadcasting control room

Creative Process

Building Ball Watching: How We're Using Agentic AI to Automate a Football TV Show

We're building an AI-powered football broadcast — think Soccer Saturday but fully automated. Here's how Aigentique Sports powers Ball Watching, and why we built it the way we did.