From Minikube to AWS EKS: How I Built a Zero-Downtime Blue-Green Deployment Pipeline for ShopSwift

I built ShopSwift, a Node.js/Express e-commerce API, and wrapped it in a production-grade blue-green deployment pipeline: Docker, Kubernetes, Minikube local validation, NGINX Ingress, GitHub Actions CI, AWS EKS, Amazon ECR, and Prometheus + Grafana monitoring. Zero failed requests across every switc