Prescaling for a known spike
Autoscale never helped in the time of crisis. What helped was prescaling -- capacity ready before the traffic arrives.
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2018
Consul in practice
Service discovery, health checks, and dynamic config across a growing fleet of microservices -- and the moment KV store got too popular.
2017
Hazard lights
We wired physical lights to 5xx alerts. It changed how the team reacts to production issues.
2013
Zero-downtime deploys
A bash deploy script and a Node.js process monitor -- SSH, pull, touch a file, the cluster reloads. No CI, no dashboard. The terminal.