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There is a version of this conversation happening in engineering teams right now. Someone proposes deploying a new service. A senior developer asks, “Are we running this on Kubernetes?” The answer ...
The client audit arrived as a 40+ page PDF document. Somewhere around those pages was a section titled“Secure Software Development Lifecycle Compliance.”Under it, a checklist. Twelve items. Each on...
Part 1 covered techniques that add capacity. More nodes, bigger machines, smarter data distribution. Those answer the question of how to handle more traffic.
The AWS bill arrived and I stared at it for a full minute.
There are exactly 40 distinct ways to scale a system. Not 35. Not 50. Some lists out there pad the count with goals and frameworks dressed up as techniques. High Availability is not a technique, it...
There is a version of this article that is a success story.