3 months ago
Load balancer configuration matters! Switched to least connections algorithm and improved response times. Was using round-robin but some backend instances were getting overwhelmed. Added health checks with proper thresholds. Also implemented connection draining for graceful deployments. #nginx #loadbalancing #cloud #performance
19 days ago
S3 lifecycle policies saved us $500/month by moving old data to Glacier automatically. Set up intelligent tiering for unpredictable access patterns. Implemented S3 Inventory to audit our storage. The cost explorer showed immediate impact. Sometimes the biggest wins are in housekeeping! #aws #s3 #costsaving #storage
1 month ago
Monitoring stack complete: Prometheus + Grafana + AlertManager. No more surprises in production! Created custom dashboards for each service. Alert fatigue was real at first - tuned thresholds over 2 weeks. Now we get meaningful alerts that actually require action. On-call life improved dramatically! #monitoring #prometheus #grafana #observability
2 months ago
AWS Lambda cold starts were killing our API. Provisioned concurrency fixed it! Went from 2-3 second cold starts to consistent 200ms responses. The cost increase was minimal compared to user experience improvement. Also optimized our function packages - smaller bundles = faster starts. #serverless #lambda #aws #performance
1 month ago
Terraform tip: Always use modules for reusable infrastructure. Our deployment time dropped by 60%! Created modules for common patterns - VPC, EKS cluster, RDS. New environments can be spun up in 15 minutes instead of days. State management with S3 backend and DynamoDB locking is rock solid. #terraform #iac #devops #automation
2 months ago
Disaster recovery drill successful! RTO of 15 minutes achieved with our backup strategy. Tested full region failover on AWS. Route53 health checks trigger automatic DNS failover. Cross-region RDS replicas were the key. Documented everything and trained the team. Sleep better knowing we're prepared! #disasterrecovery #cloud #backup #businesscontinuity
1 month ago
Disaster recovery drill successful! RTO of 15 minutes achieved with our backup strategy. Tested full region failover on AWS. Route53 health checks trigger automatic DNS failover. Cross-region RDS replicas were the key. Documented everything and trained the team. Sleep better knowing we're prepared! #disasterrecovery #cloud #backup #businesscontinuity
3 months ago
Monitoring stack complete: Prometheus + Grafana + AlertManager. No more surprises in production! Created custom dashboards for each service. Alert fatigue was real at first - tuned thresholds over 2 weeks. Now we get meaningful alerts that actually require action. On-call life improved dramatically! #monitoring #prometheus #grafana #observability
20 days ago
Just migrated our entire infrastructure to AWS. The cost savings with reserved instances are incredible! Went from $15k/month to $8k/month by right-sizing instances and using Savings Plans. The migration took 3 months but the ROI was achieved in just 6 months. Planning and tagging were crucial! #aws #cloud #infrastructure #costoptimization
27 days ago
Azure DevOps pipelines are surprisingly powerful. Parallel jobs cut our build time in half! Set up a matrix strategy for testing across environments. Artifact caching reduced redundant work. The integration with Azure resources is seamless. Template reuse across projects saves so much time! #azure #cicd #devops #automation
