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Notes from distributed systems in production.
Essays and field reports from building and operating high-traffic, polyglot platforms — Kubernetes, AWS, incident response, iGaming scale.
kubernetesdistributed systems
10,000+ CCU: Managing Traffic Waves on Kubernetes
Practical notes on running a multiplayer backend with 10,000+ concurrent users on Kubernetes — autoscaling on custom metrics, pre-warming, priorities, and surviving sudden traffic spikes.
3 min read
kubernetesdistributed systems
Istio Service Mesh in Practice: What It Does and Doesn't
We brought Istio into production during our 2023 Kubernetes migration. A year in, here's what actually delivers value versus what's sold but we don't use — a field report.
3 min read
kubernetesaws
On-Prem to AWS + Kubernetes: The Migration Gotchas Nobody Mentions
In 2023 we moved a 20+ microservice platform from on-prem to AWS + Kubernetes. Seven realities that never show up in the migration plan but slow the work — field notes.
4 min read