About

Vanta Tech & Creator is an independent publication for people who build things on the internet — engineers shipping production systems, and creators turning what they know into an audience and a business.

What we cover

Deep technical dives on cloud architecture, databases, AI engineering and modern web development, alongside honest, numbers-included essays on the creator economy: growth, tooling, and the unglamorous operations behind independent publishing. No hype cycles, no press-release journalism — just what we have built, measured, and learned.

Who writes here

Alex Rivers is a senior principal engineer and distributed-systems lead who writes about cloud architecture, Rust, and scalable backends. Elena Rostova covers applied AI, design systems, and the craft of building a publication people actually read. Every piece is written by a practitioner, from production experience.

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