I Built a Production Food Delivery Platform on AWS EKS — Here's Everything I Learned

Why I Built This Most Kubernetes tutorials stop at kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml . They don't show you how a VPC is laid out, why you need two availability zones, what IAM roles EKS nodes actually need, or how to debug a live failure using Prometheus metrics. I wanted to build something that forced me to make every decision a senior DevOps engineer would make on a real project. So I built a food delivery platform — four independent microservices, a React frontend, full Terraform infrastructur