Project: Automated compliance scanning in CI/CD - SOC2 journey
Timeline: 18 months
Team: 14 engineers
Budget: $76k
Challenge:
We needed to achieve compliance while maintaining backward compatibility.
Solution:
We implemented a blue-green deployment strategy using:
- Service mesh with Istio
- Comprehensive monitoring
- DevSecOps integration
Results:
✓ MTTR: 4hrs → 15min
✓ Zero production incidents during migration
✓ Platform now supports 10x growth
Happy to discuss our approach and share learnings!
Be careful with this approach. We had production issues.
Exactly! This is what we implemented last month.
Cautionary tale: we rushed this implementation without proper testing and it caused a 4-hour outage. The issue was race condition in the sync logic. Lesson learned: always test in staging first, especially when dealing with authentication services.
For those asking about cost: in our case (AWS, us-east-1, ~500 req/sec), we're paying about $1000/month. That's 70% vs our old setup with Prometheus. ROI was positive after just 2 months when you factor in engineering time saved.
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