Clouds - AWS, Azure, GCP

Mark Murphy · 2025-03-11T19:21:13Z

Great post! We've been doing this for about 18 months now and the results have been impressive. Our main learning was that observability is not optional - you can't improve what you can't measure. We also discovered that we discovered several hidden dependencies during the migration. For anyone starting out, I'd recommend automated rollback based on error rate thresholds. For context, we're using Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, and Prometheus. I'd recommend checking out relevant blog posts for more details. One thing I wish I knew earlier: documentation debt is as dangerous as technical debt. Would have saved us a lot of time. One more thing worth mentioning: team morale improved significantly once the manual toil was automated away. The end result was 40% cost savings on infrastructure. Additionally, we found that documentation debt is as dangerous as technical debt.