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Cloud operations: lessons that connect

Different projects, the same habit: reduce bottlenecks, detect trouble early and make infrastructure easier to change.

4 project stories3 technical notesOne practical reading path

OffloadObserveRethinkEvolve

4 project stories · 3 technical notes

How do you absorb a traffic spike?

Taking static delivery off the web servers

~90%request offload at the origin

Introduced Akamai CDN to cache around 90% of our objects close to users, easing pressure on a bare-metal origin farm.

Read the project story ↗02

How do you hear about trouble first?

Before the customer becomes the monitoring system

24/7alerts for the on-call team

When I joined in 2000, a handful of servers and log-analysis scripts were enough to describe the starting point—not a monitoring system that could keep up with growing complexity.

Read the project story ↗03

What if the original design does not work?

From bare metal to VMware

€10,000+monthly rack-cost savings

A storage project that could not meet its original latency requirements became a successful virtualization platform—and a turning point in how I thought about infrastructure.

Read the project story ↗04

How do you make the next change easier?

Cloud-native portfolio platform

AWSthe platform behind this website

A legacy WordPress site became a fast, static AWS platform with a smaller attack surface, automated delivery, and transparent visitor analytics.

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