🎄 Planning for failure to ship faster 🎁

Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps

Eight months ago, in 🎧 episode 49, Alex Sims (Solutions Architect & Senior Software Engineer at James & James) shared with us his ambition to help migrate a monolithic PHP app running on AWS EC2 to a more modern architecture. The idea was some serverless, some EKS, and many incremental improvements.

So how did all of this work out in practice? How did the improved system cope with the Black Friday peak, as well as all the following Christmas orders? Thank you Alex for sharing with us your Ship It! inspired Kaizen story. It’s a wonderful Christmas present! 🎄🎁

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Featuring:

• Alex Sims – Twitter, LinkedIn
• Gerhard Lazu – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Розділи

1. Welcome (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sourcegraph (00:01:04)

https://info.sourcegraph.com/changelog

3. Intro (00:02:46)

4. Moving towards Kubernetes (00:08:43)

5. Feature flagging, did it work? (00:12:57)

6. Black Friday and Christmas (00:16:57)

7. From problem to solution (00:23:56)

8. Sponsor: Raygun (00:25:40)

https://raygun.com/?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=jsparty&utm_campaign=changelog&utm_content=homepage

9. Datadog (00:27:53)

10. MySQL and MariaDB (00:29:37)

11. SLIs and SLOs (00:35:06)

12. Day to day before Christmas (00:38:22)

13. The improvement list (00:41:07)

14. Deployment pipeline for legacy (00:44:14)

15. It's going great (00:47:24)

16. Big plans for 2023 (00:52:26)

17. Where software meets the real world (00:55:20)

18. More Kubernetes or less? (00:56:51)

19. RUM (Datadog) (00:57:41)

20. Key takeaway (01:00:36)

21. Wrap up (01:02:15)

22. Outro (01:04:17)