23 Oct 2021
The Story
If you’ve ever managed servers, you should know that there are some metrics that you should keep an eye on. AWS automatically sets you up with some metrics, such as CPU Utilization, network in/out, and status checks. However, there are still some very important metrics that are missing: memory utilization and disk usage.
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27 Aug 2021
The Story
Recently the RDS I was managing started to use a lot more burst balance than usual. In order to understand what could be done to address it, as well as how it would affect the performance of the database, I went to study the AWS documentation about how burst balance works.
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13 Apr 2021
The Story
Slowly and surely, the Kubernetes cluster I’ve set up in my company last year moves towards production usage.
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25 Sep 2020
The Story
This past year I’ve been playing around with Kubernetes and EKS due to the shift to microservices in my company.
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30 Jul 2020
The Story
Two days ago I was looking at the graphs of my EC2 instances on AWS and I noticed that all of the instances in my development environment were stuck at 100% CPU utilization.
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