Stellar Forge
The Stellar Forge blog
Notes on building software that survives real traffic.
Field notes from client projects — deployment decisions, scaling trade-offs, and what actually breaks first.
Sep 2026
Choosing between AWS, Vercel, Cloudflare and Render for a new app
A practical framework for picking your deployment stack based on traffic shape, budget, and how much infrastructure you want to manage yourself.
Sep 2026
What we learned scaling an order management system to 2M+ monthly requests
How an internal ops tool for an industrial supplier grew into a 16-app platform — and the architecture decisions that kept it fast.