Gabardo Engineering

Reducing 1.1 years of compute time — every single day

Cutting Lambda costs by $1M/year without changing infrastructure or traffic

May 22 • Adrian Gabardo

April 2026

From 8 Hours to 20 Minutes: Deploying an MVP to Production

This is an engineering case study from a project I was part of around 2021–2022.

Apr 28 • Adrian Gabardo

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How a simple S3 design decision turned into a $7M cost

The hidden tax of 1.5 trillion objects and why your lifecycle policies might be a financial time bomb.

Apr 20 • Adrian Gabardo

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Extending the Flight Search Engine: Time, Cost, and Feasibility constraints

Graph series - part 4

Apr 14 • Adrian Gabardo

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March 2026

The S3 at Scale Runbook

Detecting and fixing cardinality explosions in production buckets

Mar 31 • Adrian Gabardo

Oncall Nihilism

Why Your Pager is a Design Failure

Mar 24 • Adrian Gabardo

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Implementing a flight search engine

Graph traversal with an IDFFS algorithm

Mar 17 • Adrian Gabardo

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Engineering an Aviation Graph: Data Structures and Design Decisions

The Graph Series, part 2

Mar 3 • Adrian Gabardo

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February 2026

The Aviation Industry as a Graph problem

The Graph Series, part 1

Feb 17 • Adrian Gabardo

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