Solid work putting this together! I have a few questions: 1) How did you handle monitoring? 2) What was your approach to canary? 3) Did you encounter any issues with costs? We're considering a similar implementation and would love to learn from your experience.
Feel free to reach out if you have more questions - happy to share our runbooks and documentation.
One thing I wish I knew earlier: the human side of change management is often harder than the technical implementation. Would have saved us a lot of time.
We tackled this from a different angle using Istio, Linkerd, and Envoy. The main reason was failure modes should be designed for, not discovered in production. However, I can see how your method would be better for larger teams. Have you considered drift detection with automated remediation?
One more thing worth mentioning: the initial investment was higher than expected, but the long-term benefits exceeded our projections.
I'd recommend checking out relevant blog posts for more details.
Great job documenting all of this! I have a few questions: 1) How did you handle authentication? 2) What was your approach to backup? 3) Did you encounter any issues with availability? We're considering a similar implementation and would love to learn from your experience.
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: unexpected benefits included better developer experience and faster onboarding.
This resonates with what we experienced last month. The problem: deployment failures. Our initial approach was simple scripts but that didn't work because too error-prone. What actually worked: automated rollback based on error rate thresholds. The key insight was the human side of change management is often harder than the technical implementation. Now we're able to scale automatically.
Feel free to reach out if you have more questions - happy to share our runbooks and documentation.
For context, we're using Istio, Linkerd, and Envoy.