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How a fintech platform achieved 99.97% uptime with graceful degradation and circuit breakers

7h ago · 6 min read · How we achieved 99.97% uptime by embracing failure in our fintech platform When your payment platform handles €2.3 million in daily transactions, downtime isn't just a technical problem, it's a business crisis. Our European fintech platform was exper...

Domain hosting and infrastructure decisions: why splitting them creates cascading failures

1d ago · 7 min read · Infrastructure cascading failures: how domain hosting decisions sabotage system reliability A marketing campaign drives 400% traffic growth. Your servers scale beautifully, handling the load without breaking a sweat. But users report timeouts and fai...

12 practices that make on-call sustainable for small teams

2d ago · 7 min read · Building sustainable on-call practices for small engineering teams Maintaining high-availability systems with a small engineering team presents a challenging paradox: you need enterprise-level reliability without enterprise-level resources. Whether y...

When a Linux server runs out of memory: graceful recovery vs immediate scaling

3d ago · 6 min read · Managing memory exhaustion in production: architectural strategies for Linux infrastructure Memory exhaustion represents one of the most critical decision points in infrastructure management. When your Linux servers approach their memory limits, you ...

How misleading monitoring nearly cost a SaaS platform €50k in lost subscriptions

4d ago · 6 min read · How deceptive monitoring metrics nearly destroyed a €50k SaaS business Monitoring dashboards can be dangerously misleading. A European financial SaaS platform discovered this the hard way when their "perfect" 99.94% uptime metrics masked severe user ...