Tim LittleinKudos EngineeringOur migration journey from AWS to Google Cloud — Part 2In our previous blog post, we covered how we were planning our migration from AWS to to Google Cloud, how we were able to containerise our…Mar 5, 20201Mar 5, 20201
Tim LittleinKudos EngineeringOur migration journey from AWS to Google Cloud — Part 1One of the big engineering project we have at Kudos is an Epic called Cattle not pets. The goal of this Epic is to move from our Pet…Mar 5, 20201Mar 5, 20201
Tim LittleinKudos EngineeringHow we reduced our Elasticsearch shards by 90% to improve performanceElasticsearch upgrades, too many shards and reindexing our data.Oct 1, 20193Oct 1, 20193
Tim LittleinKudos EngineeringIncreasing resilience in KubernetesHigh availability and resilience are key features of Kubernetes. But what do you do when your kubernetes cluster starts to become unstable…Aug 6, 20193Aug 6, 20193
Tim LittleinKudos EngineeringFaking fires: Get better incident management with practiseFire drills are a familiar concept to anyone who has ever worked in an office. Periodically the fire alarm will start to blare and a few…Feb 18, 2019Feb 18, 2019
Tim LittleinKudos EngineeringManaging reliability with SLOs and Error BudgetsWhen designing a new service for production, the architecture can get complicated pretty quickly especially when striving to build highly…Jan 9, 2019Jan 9, 2019