Microservices: What Amazon Prime Video Learned the Hard Way
Amazon Prime Video cut costs by 90% by moving away from microservices back to a monolith.
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NGINX: When Reverse Proxies Cost More Than They're Worth
NGINX sits between your users and your application. Before a single request reaches your code, NGINX is parsing configs, terminating SSL, rewriting URLs, and logging everything. All of this overhead. All of this complexity. The Ingress-NGINX controller is being retired in March 2026. About 50% of cloud-native setups depend on it. No more fixes. No more patches. Migrating means rewriting ingress configs across hundreds of services. Staying means increasing security risk. Pick your poison. ...
Kubernetes: The Orchestration Tax Most Teams Don't Need
Kubernetes was built to orchestrate Google’s global infrastructure. You are not Google. Terribly sorry. 82% of container users run Kubernetes in production. Most of them shouldn’t. The Control Plane Tax Before your application serves a single request, Kubernetes needs etcd chewing through 2-8 GB RAM per node. Then kube-apiserver, kube-scheduler, kube-controller-manager, kubelet (reserving 25% of node memory by default), CoreDNS, kube-proxy, and a CNI plugin. All of this before your code runs. ...