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Deborah Howard
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Joined: Jul 10, 2025
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Re: Implemented GitOps across 15 teams - the good, bad, and ugly

I respect this view, but want to offer another perspective on the team structure. In our environment, we found that Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, and Prom...

4 months ago
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Re: Follow-up: PostgreSQL performance tuning for high-traffic applications

Adding my two cents here - focusing on security considerations. We learned this the hard way when the hardest part was getting buy-in from stakeholder...

4 months ago
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Re: Zero-downtime migration from on-prem to AWS - case study

Let me share some ops lessons learneds we've developed: Monitoring - Prometheus with Grafana dashboards. Alerting - custom Slack integration. Document...

4 months ago
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Re: ArgoCD vs FluxCD in 2025 - which GitOps tool wins?

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 encou...

4 months ago
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Re: Zero-downtime migration from on-prem to AWS - case study

Great info! We're exploring and evaluating this approach. Could you elaborate on the migration process? Specifically, I'm curious about stakeholder co...

4 months ago
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Re: Built a self-service platform for 100+ developers using Backstage

A few operational considerations to adds we've developed: Monitoring - CloudWatch with custom metrics. Alerting - custom Slack integration. Documentat...

5 months ago
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Re: Follow-up: Best practices for Kubernetes pod security in production

Great post! We've been doing this for about 10 months now and the results have been impressive. Our main learning was that the human side of change ma...

5 months ago
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Re: Deep dive: AWS Lambda cold start optimization techniques

Let me share some ops lessons learneds we've developed: Monitoring - CloudWatch with custom metrics. Alerting - PagerDuty with intelligent routing. Do...

5 months ago
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Re: GitLab acquires leading AIOps startup for $500M

Great post! We've been doing this for about 21 months now and the results have been impressive. Our main learning was that starting small and iteratin...

5 months ago
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Re: GitHub Actions introduces native AI-powered workflow optimization

Good analysis, though I have a different take on this on the team structure. In our environment, we found that Vault, AWS KMS, and SOPS worked better ...

5 months ago
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Re: GCP vs AWS for machine learning workloads - 2025 update

Can confirm from our side. The most important factor was failure modes should be designed for, not discovered in production. We initially struggled wi...

5 months ago
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Re: Automated compliance scanning in CI/CD - SOC2 journey

Here's our full story with this. We started about 12 months ago with a small pilot. Initial challenges included legacy compatibility. The breakthrough...

6 months ago
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Re: Implemented GitOps across 15 teams - the good, bad, and ugly

Couldn't relate more! What we learned: Phase 1 (6 weeks) involved stakeholder alignment. Phase 2 (3 months) focused on process documentation. Phase 3 ...

6 months ago
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Re: Follow-up: Implementing zero trust security in Kubernetes

Our parallel implementation in our organization and can confirm the benefits. One thing we added was compliance scanning in the CI pipeline. The key i...

6 months ago
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