I Built a SaaS Platform From Scratch. Here's How I Architected It on AWS.

So I've been working on something for a while now. It's called TechVerse. It's a SaaS e-commerce platform, and I built the whole thing from the ground up using the MERN stack. I want to talk about the cloud architecture side of things. Not the textbook version. The real version. The one where you're staring at your screen at 2am trying to figure out why your WebSocket connections keep dropping, or why your API response times just spiked to 4 seconds. Let me walk you through it. The Problem I Was