Scaling Containerized Workloads Without Blindly Adding Capacity
Investigating CPU, memory, application concurrency, load balancing, and scaling signals before increasing capacity.
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Representative infrastructure situations and the engineering questions we investigate before making changes.
Investigating CPU, memory, application concurrency, load balancing, and scaling signals before increasing capacity.
Explore engineering approachReviewing compute, storage, network, and workload behaviour to identify spend that can be reduced without introducing operational risk.
Explore engineering approachReviewing the path from source change to production health, including build validation, artifact handling, deployment checks, and rollback.
Explore engineering approachOrganizing service metrics, logs, alerts, release context, and response paths so production issues can be investigated faster.
Explore engineering approachReviewing workload boundaries, ingress, requests and limits, autoscaling, upgrades, security controls, and the operating model behind a production cluster.
Explore engineering approachPlanning application dependencies, data movement, networking, DNS cutover, validation, and rollback before production traffic moves.
Explore engineering approachReplacing manual cloud changes with Terraform modules, protected state, environment boundaries, plan review, and drift control.
Explore engineering approachReviewing IAM, network boundaries, encryption, secrets, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, patching, and production access paths.
Explore engineering approachMapping failure domains across traffic, application, data, and recovery paths before introducing redundancy controls.
Explore engineering approachDefining RPO, RTO, backup integrity, restore testing, dependency recovery, infrastructure recreation, and operational runbooks.
Explore engineering approachComparing ECS, Fargate, ECS on EC2, and EKS against workload characteristics, scaling, networking, cost, and operating ownership.
Explore engineering approachTracing request timing, application concurrency, database behaviour, caching, queues, and resource saturation before increasing compute.
Explore engineering approachReviewing database workload, replicas, backups, connection management, storage, failover, monitoring, and recovery behaviour.
Explore engineering approachAdding dependency and image checks, secrets management, scoped IAM, approval controls, and auditability to delivery workflows.
Explore engineering approachEstablishing tagging, allocation, budgets, anomaly response, rightsizing, storage lifecycle, and recurring cost review ownership.
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