Tag: aws
Articles tagged "aws" on DevOps in Practice.
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Not Every Timeout Needs Another Retry
A Kafka metadata timeout in Lambda led us to extend the producer’s recovery window instead of adding another retry loop.
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Last call before production
How we coordinate multiple deployment lifecycles with previews, releases, and approvals while leaving context-dependent decisions to the people closest to the change.
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DocumentDB Upserts: When Missing Indexes Drive Up I/O Costs
How missing indexes turned routine DocumentDB upserts into full collection scans, drove I/O cost above $3,000 per month, and slowed every caller down.
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ECS vs EKS: What Problem Do You Want to Operate
A practical comparison from production: upgrades, cronjobs, permissions, AWS limits, and the real cost of keeping a platform alive.