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Maya Reyes

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Maya Reyes is a cloud infrastructure engineer and technical writer. She previously built distributed systems at a major streaming platform and writes about cloud architecture, distributed systems, and the gap between how cloud providers plan infrastructure and how it actually gets used.

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Platform Engineering

The System I Regret Building

It was elegant. It was fast. It solved exactly the problem we had in 2021. By 2023, it was the reason three engineers quit.

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Cloud

The Region That Shouldn't Exist

How an unsanctioned weekend project became a production AWS region serving half a continent, and what it says about where cloud infrastructure is actually headed.

Maya Reyes

Your Work Deserves to Be Documented

Every system you built. Every decision you made. That's a story worth telling.

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