Prescaling for a known spike
2019.074Autoscale never helped in the time of crisis. What helped was prescaling -- capacity ready before the traffic arrives.
Devops
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2018
Consul in practice
2018.253Service discovery, health checks, and dynamic config across a growing fleet of microservices -- and the moment KV store got too popular.
A week before the sale
2018.154The checklist is the same as last year. That's the point.
2017
Hazard lights
2017.161We wired physical lights to 5xx alerts. It changed how the team reacts to production issues.
2013
Zero-downtime deploys
2013.196A bash deploy script and a Node.js process monitor -- SSH, pull, touch a file, the cluster reloads. No CI, no dashboard. The terminal.