Wingravity

Serverless isn't always the cheapest option.

One of our clients' high-traffic Next.js applications had outgrown its serverless architecture and by moving from Lambda@Edge, CloudFront, and S3 to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, we reduced AWS infrastructure costs by ~63% without changing the application itself.

The key takeaway?

💡 Cloud architecture should evolve with your traffic as what works brilliantly at launch may become unnecessarily expensive as your workload grows.

In this article, we cover:

✅ Why serverless became costly
✅ How we migrated with minimal code changes
✅ The architecture decisions that made the difference
✅ Practical do's and don'ts for engineering teams.

Sometimes the biggest optimization is choosing the right one.

🔗 Full article in the comments.

Presentations suffer from a hidden tax on attention.

When you share your entire screen, you introduce an underlying tension and your brain splits focus between what you are saying and what the room might accidentally see.

We noticed this exact friction during our own client interviews: when notes and presentations compete for the same space, delivery suffers.

We realized this separation shouldn't be managed manually by a stressed presenter, it should be built into the software by design.

The result is a radically focused presentation surface: monochromatic and designed to command an audience's attention without demanding the presenter's cognitive load.

We build software for organizations that refuse to tolerate bad design and clunky workflows.

The engineering breakdown and full Showslide case study are in the first comment below.

An introduction to how we think about building software in practice. First in a series. Link in comments.