Tasq watched oil and gas wells for operators. A well is just a production site out in the field. Sensors on each one sent readings like pressure and flow, and we called those readings signals. Our job was to turn that stream of data into work for the people who…

At Tasq.io we had several repositories that were loosely connected but kept completely separate. Shared logic got copied from one place to another. Dependencies were tracked separately in each repo. CI/CD pipelines had to be maintained for every project on its own. Working across them felt messier than it needed…

At Tasq the AWS bill kept climbing as we grew. Nothing dramatic day to day, just a steady rise that got hard to ignore. Most of it sat in network traffic, storage, and monitoring. I dug into the invoices and the setup behind them, and three things kept showing up.…

When I joined Tasq, there was no shared way of shipping code. Some people pushed straight to main. Others opened pull requests with no description, no testing notes, and no real review. You often found out about a change only after it was already live, and bugs that a second…