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How and why we spent $400K on AWS in 4 months

Baremetrics

Your application grows more complex, your customers 10x, then 100x, which means the amount of data you’re storing and moving around grows by 1000x. You have to face challenging tradeoffs, the more of your team’s time you buy with hosted services, the less customization and higher cost you incur. down the road.

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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or searching for ways to make it work better for your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline. But you're in luck, because successful DevOps practitioners leave clues and patterns that you can start implementing today to supercharge the value from your DevOps program.

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Moving ChartMogul to AWS and Kubernetes

Chart Mogul

A few months ago, we retired our last pieces of infrastructure on DigitalOcean, marking our migration to AWS as complete. Our journey was not your regular AWS migration as it involved moving our infrastructure from classic VMs to containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. Lack of modern cloud features and managed services.

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

DevOps has largely completed the evolution of systems monitoring from the datacenter/IT worldview to what is commonly referred to as observability. State of DevOps Report, DORA Research Institute, 2019 The latest iteration of the study was launched in May 2021. Big data has been a game-changer.

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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

CloudGeometry

Proven best practices that help both finance & engineering teams The State of DevOps Dora Report shows the progression of everyone in this SaaS arms race – leaders and laggards alike – towards a model that produces faster cloud-driven commercial and technical success. Adapted from DORA’s State of DevOps Report 2019 , pp.

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User Model: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 1

CloudGeometry

User- and customer-specific application logic and data services are provisioned in a way that enables streamlined monitoring and updating In SaaS terms, this combination of user and customer is called tenant context. Onboarding operationalizes your user model by expressing it through tenant context. Or just drop us a line.

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Using Tailscale to Access Amazon VPCs, EC2 Instances, and RDS Clusters

Crafty CTO

Inception: Direct Database Access for the Data Team Our immediate need was getting the data science team programatic access to a read replica of our production database, an Amazon RDS Postgres cluster. SMSM has one significant drawback: targeted at dev and devops folks, it is configured and run through the AWS command line interface.