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🗣️ Man vs Machine - Exploring the Benefits of a Cloud-Native Approach

Design Rules:

• Scalability: The application is designed to scale infinitely.
• Resilience: The application is built to handle sudden termination gracefully.
• Dependency Flexibility: The application is designed to coexist with other applications that might fail unpredictably.
• Managed Services: All components are stored within managed services.
• Cost Efficiency: Utilizing spot instances to reduce costs by 50-80%.

RDS vs VMs:

• VM Update Scenario:
  • Updating 60 VMs with MySQL took approximately 1 month, involving 3 engineers and causing partial downtime for 14 hours.
• RDS Update Scenario:
  • Updating 300 RDS instances took 1 day, required 2 engineers for PR review, and led to only 6 minutes and 50 seconds of partial downtime.
• Utilizing DB replication and GCP services resulted in significant savings.

Secrets Management:

• Secrets management is a crucial aspect of the architecture.

Source: Virtual Exclusive Pro Talk - Man vs Machine: What’s the Real Gain of a Cloud-Native Approach