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and everything in between.

Running an serverless email relay with ZeroOps for 5 years

I’ve been a staunch follower of zero-mailbox policy since 2011. Even for my personal mail. Somewhere around 2014, I lost control of my mailbox on Gmail due to the sheer rate at which I started receiving emails. This coincided with Gmail introducin...

From Intent to Action: 9 Critical Factors that Improve Automation Value

Ever been in a meeting where automation was called out as the silver bullet to all problems followed by unanimous nods across the room? Automation sounds simple but stands as an umbrella term bringing many complex factors into consideration. Not r...

Autoscale optimizations - Challenges with memory based metrics

This post is 3rd of a 3 part series discussing autoscale and its related concepts. In the previous posts, we discussed flapping and identified effective scale-in metrics to help optimize autoscale configurations. This post focuses on challenges du...

Autoscale optimizations - Identifying effective scale-in metrics

This post is 2nd of a 3 part series discussing autoscale and its related concepts. In the previous post, we discussed flapping during autoscale scale-in operations and built a model to help optimize autoscale configurations. In this post we identi...