With online now platforms being a key part of our daily lives, experiencing downtimes can be very costly, both from end-users perspectives and the organizations behind them. The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed companies, institutions and governments to adopt new software solutions to replace face-to-face interactions and processes at a speed…

In the first part we learned how to stress test a web application to find the performance bottlenecks, now is time to fix them! The idea is to squeeze all the performance we can off our servers. This is key to scale our infrastructure in a cost-efficient manner. …

After months of hard work the project finally got his first production release and the client is starting to promote it. Everything is going well until you get a phone call at Sunday 4p.m: the site is down, too much traffic. Sounds familiar? maybe it was on Monday instead of…