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Looking for any kind of advice (links to good job boards, company names, people to contact, blogs to read, general tips) about migrating to the games industry.

I'm a senior software engineer, working on random web stuff forever, and I want to work in the games industry. I'm not in a rush, so anything I can do between now and the next two years I'll consider. I have some constraints though: I would like to stay remote, and have a "safe" job (I say that because I've heard many stories where people are hired to make a single game and are fired right after launch, which would be too risky for me).

Gaming has been my passion forever, and I even make some minigames in my free time. Right now I'm just trying to mix things up, to put my engineering skills into something I might like more. I understand that's a bit naive, but I have no reason not to try.

TL;DR: What are your checklists, tips, and tricks to ensure you're delivering a high-quality piece of work (whether it's a Pull Request or something equivalent in your field)?

As a full-stack developer, I've often found myself in situations where a sprint goes wrong, and a lot of bugs are flagged by QA. It's a tough spot to be in because I genuinely put in my best effort when coding, but sometimes things just don't go as planned. It could be due to a new feature, an old legacy system, or simply a rough week—it happens from time to time (not so often, I remember like 4 moments in my 5 years of experience). What advice do you have for maintaining consistent deliveries with minimal bugs (or equivalent failures in your area)?

I've been a dev for a while, mostly working in already setup companies where my merge trigger something that deploys the code on AWS and end of story.

But I'm highly interest now in building my own stuff, maybe a simple web app with nest + next + postgress or whatever that I can capitalize (a Saas??), maybe a game for icebreakers (like wikitrivia, wordle, etc) just for fun.

How do people host this things? How do I even start learning this? Should I really try my lucky on AWS stuff and pray to not wake up with a bill in my credit card?

Sounds so easy to deploy a static thing in GitHub pages but so scary to deploy any API on AWS.