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Path-based to subdomain migration overview

From /app to app.: A Safe, Phased Migration to a Dedicated Subdomain

Migrating a web app from a path-based URL (example.com/app) to a dedicated subdomain (app.example.com) sounds simple—until you touch authentication, routing, and API boundaries. The good news: with a deliberate plan and a phased rollout, it can be low-risk—even boring.

This post outlines a practical approach that worked for us, distilled into phases, traps to avoid, and a reusable checklist.

This approach is especially useful for SaaS products, dashboards, and SPAs that rely on hosted authentication providers and API-driven backends.

AI Primer

AI for Developers: A Practical, No-Hype Primer for AWS & Backend Engineers

AI has quietly moved from “interesting experiment” to default tooling for many development teams. If you’re a backend, DevOps, or cloud engineer, you’re already using it—sometimes intentionally, sometimes indirectly—whether it’s in IDE assistants, CI pipelines, log analysis, or documentation workflows. This article is not a hype piece, a vendor comparison, or a prompt-engineering guide. It’s a practical, architecture-oriented view of AI in 2026: what it really is, where it fits into an AWS-centric stack, and where engineers routinely get burned.