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A consulting engagement where we finally opened the cloud bill and found forgotten dev environments, runaway log storage, and a data pipeline reprocessing everything from scratch every night.

A Node.js service was writing UTC timestamps to a PostgreSQL database configured for Europe/Berlin. Nobody noticed the mismatch until a DST transition made an entire hour of orders vanish from daily reports.

A client's dashboard took 11 seconds to render. Everyone blamed the database. The real problem was an ORM doing exactly what we told it to — we just never looked at what that meant.

A 20-person team was running 14 microservices with three full-time engineers just keeping the infrastructure alive. We consolidated six of them into a modular monolith and cut their deploy time by 70%.

A client's team was drowning in a 200K-line TypeScript monolith. When we finally measured what was actually running in production, we found that almost a third of it was dead code nobody had touched in over a year.