Ever wondered what a TechX cohort actually builds? In this session cut, I take you inside our program and unpack the exact AWS architecture our interns shipped for a high-throughput web-scraping platform.
🏗 What we cover
Why we went EC2 (not Lambda/Fargate) for long-running crawlers, predictable pricing, and OS-level control
Nginx + Application Load Balancer → seamless blue/green deploys & sticky sessions
VPC design: separate subnets for Postgres, back-end VMs, and a private memory cache layer
S3 blob storage + multi-region CDNs for lightning-fast asset delivery and lower egress costs
Quick hits on monitoring, autoscaling rules, and cost optimization—all implemented by TechX interns
⚡ Key takeaways for aspiring engineers
When to favor managed VMs over “serverless” hype
How a single load balancer unlocks horizontal scaling and painless rollbacks
The CDN pattern that turns a scraper into a static-site performance beast
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