The Role of SRE in Modern Tech Companies: Beyond FirefightingWhen most people think of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), their minds often gravitate toward incident response, resolving outages, and restoring services. While these tasks are critical, SREs bring much more to the table. In fact, firefighting is...Feb 4, 2025 · 4 min readlordwales.hashnode.dev
Case Study: Implementing a CI/CD Pipeline for an Edtech StartupBackground This project involves an Edtech startup struggling with a slow and manual development cycle, hindering its ability to deliver new features and updates consistently. Rapid innovation and deployment of new features are crucial for gaining a ...May 26, 2024 · 3 min readlordwales.hashnode.dev
Case Study: Upgrading Monitoring and Observability with Datadog for a Medium-Scale CompanyBackground A medium-scale company sought to upgrade its monitoring and observability system from AWS CloudWatch to a more advanced and feature-rich solution. While CloudWatch had been adequate, it did not fully meet their evolving needs. After detail...May 26, 2024 · 3 min readlordwales.hashnode.dev
Case Study: Transforming AWS Management: A Startup's Journey with Terraform as IaCBackground This study focuses on a startup struggling with managing its AWS-based infrastructure due to predominantly manual configurations. The infrastructure includes databases, servers, Amazon ECS services, Kafka, Lambda, Secret Manager, SQS, VPN,...May 26, 2024 · 3 min readlordwales.hashnode.dev
Case Study: Transforming Monolithic SaaS: A Journey to Microservices with EKSBackground A Software as a Service (SaaS) company operating a monolithic architecture for its primary application recognized the need to transition to a microservices architecture. The primary motivation was to enhance scalability, flexibility, and m...May 26, 2024 · 3 min readlordwales.hashnode.dev
