What the Future Holds
The holiday season is now approaching. It’s a time for celebrations, travel preparation, chats, and a less stressed atmosphere.
The team is far more relaxed now. All their tasks have been accomplished and on time. All the required services are now running in the cloud: databases, web servers, backups, Lambda functions responding to issues and automatically fixing them, and many more. Most tasks are now automated, auto-scaling whenever possible, and continuously monitored, with notifications sent to the relevant parties. Of course, the team will continue to learn and try new features, but all business functionality was delivered without any issues.
They also managed to fulfill all recent urgent requests on time, which was a bit worrying as any delay could have affected their holidays. But in the end, they managed to improve the system performance by using caching. The monitoring team has already perceived a notable performance improvement, and the...