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Performance

Blog posts in the Performance category

Integrating Performance Testing into CI/CD Pipelines

Automate smoke, load, stress and soak tests in your CI/CD pipeline to catch bottlenecks early and enforce p95, throughput and error gates.

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5 Common CI/CD Errors and How to Fix Them

Fix five common CI/CD pipeline problems—testing, complexity, environment drift, monitoring gaps and hardcoded secrets with practical fixes.

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Zero Downtime Deployments with Terraform

Use Terraform lifecycle rules, blue/green, rolling and canary strategies with health checks to update infrastructure without service interruptions.

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Real-Time Monitoring in Hybrid Cloud Environments

Unified observability across on‑prem and public clouds with OpenTelemetry, RUM, synthetic tests and AI for proactive issue detection.

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AWS vs Azure for Gaming Workloads

Compare AWS and Azure for multiplayer game hosting: performance, costs, GPUs, latency, scalability and UK region differences.

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Checklist for Evaluating Cloud Support SLAs

Narrow SLA definitions and capped credits can leave your business exposed—use this checklist to verify uptime, support and enforcement.

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Case Study: Observability in Hybrid Hosting Environments

Unified logs, metrics and traces to cut hosting costs, reach 99.9% uptime and reduce MTTR from 45 to 8 minutes.

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Grafana Tempo: Cost-Effective Kubernetes Tracing

Low-cost distributed tracing for Kubernetes using object storage and a no‑index architecture; integrates with Prometheus and Loki.

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Consul vs Istio: Strengths and Weaknesses

Compare Consul and Istio on platform support, traffic control, observability, resource use and when to choose each.

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GPU Pricing by Region: A 2025 Comparison

GPU hourly rates in 2025 varied up to 10× by region and provider; spot pricing, egress and co-location drive 2–5× savings.

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Ultimate Guide to Vendor Reporting Frameworks

Build vendor reporting frameworks with KPIs, automation and AI to cut cloud costs, boost delivery and reduce incidents.

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Latency Benchmarks: Istio, Linkerd, Consul

Latency and resource comparison of Istio, Linkerd and Consul — Linkerd leads in speed, Istio in features, Consul suits HashiCorp/hybrid setups.

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