Levels.fyi optimized their cloud infrastructure, saving ~15% on cloud spend by making strategic changes such as shutting down unused EC2 instances, removing unnecessary ElastiCache, transitioning historical S3 data to Glacier, fine-tuning ECS autoscaling, upgrading RDS & Lambda, and tidying up ECR a.. read more  

Amazon, founded in 1994, has grown to have 175 "fulfilment centres" worldwide, selling millions of stock items daily and providing countless services from streaming to home camera systems. Despite criticism, the company faces the challenge of continual growth and innovation in an ever-changing lands.. read more  

CloudZero’s co-founder, Erik Peterson, shares the concepts of cloud economics to help you understand, control, and optimize cloud costs (and almost certainly increase savings)... read more  

GitHub Copilot offers code suggestions, snippets, comments, and documentation based on open-source patterns but requires a subscription.Codeium, a free alternative, provides similar code completion features, supports over 70 languages, and integrates with a wide range of IDEs including VSCode, JetBr.. read more  

gRPC, a high-performance RPC framework, excels with wide language support but introduces complexity in simple RPC calls and tooling due to required code generation. HTTP/2 reliance limited initial reach, while HTTP/3 adoption and JSON mapping lagged behind. Despite these issues, current improvements.. read more  

Increasing SLOs from 2 nines to 3 nines improves uptime by nearly400 minutes monthly, while increasing from 4 nines to 5 nines adds just about 3 minutes. The costs and complexity of achieving higher nines grow exponentially, requiring significant redundancy and automation... read more  

Uploading container images to S3 as a registry works by exposing an S3 bucket through HTTP and uploading the image files to specific paths. Benchmarking showed S3 uploads are up to 8x faster than AWS ECR due to S3's support for parallel chunk uploads. Despite being experimental, this method provides.. read more  

Grafana dashboards have been key in visualizing data for over a decade, incorporating principles like audience understanding and visual hierarchies for effective design. Key metrics to consider include the RED method (Errors, Requests, Duration), the USE method (Utilization, Saturation, Errors), and.. read more