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Cloud, DevOps & High-load
Kubernetes, queues, caching, observability and the checklists that keep systems up at peak.
Cloud, DevOps & High-load
Cloud, DevOps & High-load ·
Why We Left AWS Aurora PostgreSQL for Managed Bare Metal to Save 58%
Migrating a high-throughput 12TB PostgreSQL database off AWS Aurora reduced our monthly bill by 58%. Here is the technical breakdown of our storage I/O costs and cutover strategy.
6 min read
Cloud, DevOps & High-load ·
Surviving peak load: ten things we check before a sale, a launch or a season
Black Friday, a TV ad, a ticket release — the traffic spike is known in advance, and so are the failures. The checklist we run on e-commerce and high-load back ends before the day.
4 min read