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

Why we spent 8 hours babysitting CloudFormation and how we automated our way out

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Adrian Gabardo
Apr 28, 2026
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This is an engineering case study from a project I was part of around 2021–2022. At the time, I was working at a software consultancy and was placed with a large Australian tertiary education solutions provider to help take an existing system from a working MVP to something that could operate reliably in production. The system itself was already functio…

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