A production content platform migrated from AWS to GCP with full infrastructure as code, brought into ad-platform compliance, and continuously refined using real user-behavior data.
WizardsTower.com originally ran on AWS ECS Fargate behind an Application Load Balancer. In July 2026 it moved to GCP Cloud Run, sharing a single global HTTPS load balancer and Terraform-managed infrastructure with two sister properties (WickedAwesome.tech and TekMage.com itself) under one GCP project. The architecture change paid for itself: moving from an always-on ECS task to Cloud Run's scale-to-zero model, and consolidating three separate load balancers into one shared one, cut monthly infrastructure spend by roughly 60%. For any client paying for capacity they don't need most of the day, this kind of architecture review is exactly where TekMage starts.
Bringing the platform into compliance with Google AdSense's content and privacy policies took a systematic audit rather than guesswork: real page word counts, checking what content was actually crawlable versus JavaScript-only, and reviewing session recordings for usability issues. That surfaced concrete, fixable items — image licensing, a consent-management flow that wasn't fully wired to Google's Consent Mode v2, and thin JS-only sections without static fallback content for search crawlers. Each was resolved and verified before resubmission.
TekMage treats analytics as an ongoing input, not a one-time report. Session-recording data from Microsoft Clarity flagged a subtle interaction issue in the site's breadcrumb navigation — the current-page indicator still displayed a pointer cursor, inviting clicks that did nothing.
The fix was rolled out across all 47 affected template files, verified with an automated style check and a visual screenshot diff, and confirmed against fresh session-recording data after deployment — closing the loop with evidence rather than assuming a clean deploy log tells the whole story.
Infrastructure and UX decisions that aren't checked against real production data are guesses with good intentions. Every recommendation TekMage makes gets run against real traffic, real session data, and real cost numbers — on TekMage's own infrastructure first.