7 articles tagged with ""infrastructure""
Your pod keeps getting OOMKilled at 3am and you have no idea why? After getting paged one too many times, I learned that setting proper CPU and memory limits is the difference between a stable cluster and a production dumpster fire.
Everyone says 'don't use docker-compose in production, use Kubernetes.' After running it in prod for 3 years without incident, I'd like to respectfully disagree — for the right use case.
That one microservice eating all your CPU? Yeah, it's taking down everything else too. Here's how Kubernetes resource limits save your cluster from itself.
Still SSHing into your cluster at 2 AM to scale up pods during traffic spikes? After getting paged one too many times, I set up Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaling — and now my cluster handles Black Friday traffic while I sleep like a baby.
I once rebuilt an entire production environment from scratch because a teammate 'just clicked a few things' in the AWS console. That was the day I became a Terraform evangelist. Here's what I wish someone had told me on day one.
Our API was drowning. My first instinct? Upgrade to a bigger server! Turns out I was solving the wrong problem. After 7 years architecting production systems, here's when to scale UP and when to scale OUT!
Your app has 5 servers but only one is actually working. After 7 years architecting production systems, here's how I learned that load balancing isn't just 'distributing traffic' - it's the difference between smooth scaling and catastrophic failure!