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From Herding Servers to Building Worlds with Code I had done it. I had achieved high availability. My application was running on a fleet of two identical servers, managed by a smart load balancer. If one server went down, the other would seamlessly t...
My Server Was a Superhero, and That Was the Problem I had finally done it. My application was a well-oiled machine.The database and cache were offloaded to managed services, so they could scale on their own.My deployments were a one-command, automate...
My App Was Getting Popular, and It Was Starting to Hurt For the first time in this journey, I felt a sense of true peace. My deployments were fully automated. I could push a new feature, walk away to make a cup of tea, and return to find it live in p...
My Deployments Were a Ritual, Not a Process We've come so far. Our application is neatly containerized in Docker, and our data is safe and sound in managed cloud services. I had eliminated the "works on my machine" curse and outsourced my 3 AM data-l...
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About This Series Over the past 8 years, I’ve built and deployed a variety of applications, each with its own unique set of challenges, lessons, and occasionally, hard-earned scars. Instead of presenting those experiences as isolated technical write-...
