Notes from running platforms
I write about what I've learned building and running AWS and Kubernetes platforms: reliability, scaling, cost, delivery and the platform work in between. A new post most weeks.
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Surviving peak traffic on EKS: architecture, KEDA, Karpenter and DR drills
A full playbook for a traffic spike on an Akamai, EKS and EC2 stack: k6 load tests that find the knee, KEDA and Karpenter pre-scaling, sizing MongoDB, Kafka, Aerospike and RDS, DR by RTO/RPO, backup-restore and failover drills.