Clouds - AWS, Azure, GCP

Jose Williams · 2025-11-15T07:21:13Z

Lessons we learned along the way: 1) Automate everything possible 2) Monitor proactively 3) Review and iterate 4) Keep it simple. Common mistakes to avoid: over-engineering early. Resources that helped us: Google SRE book. The most important thing is learning over blame. The end result was 99.9% availability, up from 99.5%. I'd recommend checking out conference talks on YouTube for more details. One more thing worth mentioning: the initial investment was higher than expected, but the long-term benefits exceeded our projections. The end result was 3x increase in deployment frequency. Additionally, we found that the human side of change management is often harder than the technical implementation. The end result was 3x increase in deployment frequency. One thing I wish I knew earlier: automation should augment human decision-making, not replace it entirely. Would have saved us a lot of time.