This was the most obvious one. Our infrastructure today has far less compute, memory and storage provisioned than we had

So after a few weeks, the area of Queens that Rodriguez-Gerada had transformed into a larger than life symbol of the sorrow and heroism of these strange and awful times became a parking lot again. And the world had one less way of remembering those taken by the coronavirus.,Society should do more to support people through that process both in terms of the pandemic and beyond it, Shear says. “We’re really ready to move on and to not pay attention to grief in general. So it’s not so surprising that we do that with this also.” She adds, “when someone loses someone close, we tend to say to them, ‘We’re so sorry.’ We take a half a minute to honor their loss and their pain and then we say, ‘Okay, now it’s time to move on.’”,Denckla points to the Good Grief festival in England, a weeklong digital event this fall, where speakers from various disciplines discussed the grieving process, as well as the pandemic. She says this kind of “public acknowledgment of compounded multiple losses and that validation and that acknowledgment can set a foundation for starting to mourn and to grieve and to heal.”,She adds the first step on the road to a better public health response to pandemic grief would be a more robust cultural response. “I think the first thing to do is to acknowledge these things: to acknowledge the loss, to acknowledge the grief, to acknowledge the pain.”,“There are concerns about mental health on many different levels as a result of the pandemic,” Denckla says. “This is from the consequences of necessary social distancing to the financial stress, the socioeconomic stressors, all the compounded stressors. There has not been a concerted public health response to many of the mental health concerns, including grief.”,However, initially we had an enormous amount of wastage of resources while we were migrating. Owing to our inability to tune our self-managed Kubernetes cluster the right way which led to a ton of performance issues, we ended up requesting a lot of resources in our pods as buffer and more like insurance to reduce chances of outages or performance issues due to lack of compute or memory.,High infrastructure cost due to large resource buffers was a big problem. We were not really able to realise any benefits of capacity utilisation due to Kubernetes that we should have. It was after migrating to EKS and observing the stability it brought helped us become more confident, which helped us take the necessary steps to correct resource requests and bring down resource wastage drastically.,Migration to Nginx ingress was relatively simple for us and didn’t require a lot of changes because of our controller approach. More savings can come if we use ingress in production as well. It’s not a simple change. Several considerations have to go in configuring ingress for production the right way and needs to be looked at from the perspective of security and API management as well. This is an area we intend to work in the near future.,Spot instances helped us get massive savings. Today, our entire stage Kubernetes cluster runs on spot instances and 99% of our production Kubernetes cluster is covered by reserved instances, savings plan and spot instances.,“The Angular Language Service provides code editors with a way to get completions, errors, hints, and navigation inside Angular templates. It works with external templates in separate HTML files, and also with in-line templates.” — Angular’s documentation,Pods can be provisioned on any node. Even if you control how pods are spread in your cluster, there is no easy way to control how services discover each other in a way that a pod of one service talks to the pod of another service in the same AZ to reduce cross-AZ data transfer.,Yet even Rodriquez-Gerada’s colossal tribute to those claimed by the pandemic was a fleeting one. The mural had always been designed to be temporary, but because of its popularity, there was a movement to let it stay longer than initially intended. Rodriquez-Gerada says this was sadly logistically impossible because a construction project had begun and the park needed the parking spots the painting occupied.,The week Rodriguez-Gerada created the painting was incredibly windy and it was hard to get the paint he was spraying on the pavement to land properly. Even finding enough paint was difficult, and his team bought out four Home Depots. But these technical aspects weren’t foremost on his mind, instead, he was thinking about Dr. Decoo’s eyes.,Using spot instances with Kubernetes is a lot easier than using spot instances with vanilla VMs. With VMs, you can manage spot instances yourself which might have some complexity of ensuring a proper uptime for your applications or use a service like SpotInst. The same applies to Kubernetes as well but the resource efficiency brought in by Kubernetes can leave you enough room for keeping some buffer so that even if a few instances in your cluster get interrupted, the containers scheduled on them can be quickly rescheduled elsewhere. There are a few options for efficiently managing spot interruptions.,We used Ingress to consolidate ELBs in our stage environment and reduce the fixed costs of ELBs drastically. To avoid this from becoming a cause of dev/prod disparity in code, we decided to implement a controller that would mutate LoadBalancer type services to NodePort type services along with an ingress object in our stage cluster.