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Shared store, product down, AWS green
Mongo was saturating. I put cache in front of a store we didn’t own so the app stopped stampeding it. That page class stayed quiet for months.
Real estate · ECS/Fargate · MongoDB · three cache layersI design and recover AWS systems that have to take real load. When production, platforms, or reliability are failing, I stay through the recovery, not the slide deck.
If production is down, put LIVE in the subject. I’ll tell you the same day if I can come in.
I get hired to
The account, the org, the traffic. Fortune 50 AWS when the next load will not fit.
It is down, or it keeps paging. AWS is green. The product is not.
The failure mode does not come back. Short retainer, not a forever bench.
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Mongo was saturating. I put cache in front of a store we didn’t own so the app stopped stampeding it. That page class stayed quiet for months.
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