We use Kubernetes at $work, and since I am in charge of platform, Kubernetes is my problem. Here's an interesting problem when trying to secure your Kubernetes workload.

Our pods need to talk to each other over the network. Early on, we decided that each pod would receive a unique …

Wherein I praise AWS support, complain about Amazon's stupid support billing model, tell you how to get out of paying support costs, and then hope that my loophole will poke AWS to provider cheaper organization-wide support plans.

We extensively use CircleCI as our CI provider. We run our entire test suite on CircleCI machines for all new commits in all PRs across our microservice repositories.

Like most other CI providers, they integrate with Github's webhooks so that CircleCI gets pinged to start running CI tests whenever new …

I continue hunting my SQS performance white whale and learn that SQS hangs up every 80 messages.

We use AWS Simple Queue Service a lot. But man, the tail latency really sucks.

Our Django application connects to MySQL to store all of its data. This is a pretty typical setup. However, you may not know that establishing connections to MySQL is rather expensive.

MySQL Connections

I have written previously about controlling API response times -- we take it very seriously! One thing that …

Being DOSd by a CI error led us to build rate limiting into our product.

AWS Cognito is nice to get up and running quickly with. But after extensive usage, I have a few problems with it.