The developer experience (DX) improvements alone justified the migration. Build times dropped by 60%, hot reload became instant, and the team reported significantly higher satisfaction scores in our quarterly surveys.
Documentation is often the first thing to be neglected and the last thing to be updated. We adopted a docs-as-code approach where documentation lives alongside the codebase and goes through the same review process as any other change.
Lessons Learned
Cost optimization is an ongoing process, not a one-time exercise. We set up automated alerts for spending anomalies and conducted monthly reviews to identify underutilized resources that could be right-sized or eliminated.
Retrospectives after each sprint helped the team continuously improve. Rather than treating them as a formality, we used structured formats that surfaced actionable insights and tracked follow-through on agreed improvements.
If you found this guide helpful, consider sharing it with your team. The practices described here work best when adopted collectively rather than individually.
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