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[![A Service Mesh Rollout That Was Worth It](/_astro/hero.Uvd7kA_G_Z1cMt8C.webp)](/case-studies/post/service-mesh-rollout-when-worth-it)

## [A Service Mesh Rollout That Was Worth It](/case-studies/post/service-mesh-rollout-when-worth-it)

-   [Architecture](/case-studies/categories/architecture)
-   [DevOps](/case-studies/categories/devops)
-   20 Oct 2026
-   08 Mins read

The request that started this was not "can we have a service mesh". It was an auditor asking how we encrypted traffic between services, and the honest answer being that we mostly did not. Everything i

[#Service Mesh](/case-studies/tags/service-mesh)[#Istio](/case-studies/tags/istio)[#Kubernetes](/case-studies/tags/kubernetes)+4 tags

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[![Replacing Cron Chaos with an Event-Driven Pipeline](/_astro/hero.Dm63yRWp_Z1lGdiN.webp)](/case-studies/post/cron-to-event-driven-pipeline)

## [Replacing Cron Chaos with an Event-Driven Pipeline](/case-studies/post/cron-to-event-driven-pipeline)

-   [Cloud Architecture](/case-studies/categories/cloud-architecture)
-   [DevOps](/case-studies/categories/devops)
-   06 Oct 2026
-   10 Mins read

The handover note said "check the pipeline runs" and nothing else. Behind that sentence were 41 cron jobs spread across 6 EC2 hosts, some chained by sleep 900 because someone had once needed job B t

[#Event Driven](/case-studies/tags/event-driven)[#AWS](/case-studies/tags/aws)[#EventBridge](/case-studies/tags/eventbridge)+4 tags

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[![Taming a 3am Pager: SLOs and Error Budgets That Stuck](/_astro/hero.an3xFV8m_q9tWb.webp)](/case-studies/post/slo-error-budget-rollout-case-study)

## [Taming a 3am Pager: SLOs and Error Budgets That Stuck](/case-studies/post/slo-error-budget-rollout-case-study)

-   [Reliability](/case-studies/categories/reliability)
-   [DevOps](/case-studies/categories/devops)
-   29 Aug 2026
-   07 Mins read

A platform team was losing people to burnout, and the cause was the pager. On-call meant a phone that went off day and night with alerts about CPU, memory, and pod restarts, the overwhelming majority

[#SLO](/case-studies/tags/slo)[#Error Budget](/case-studies/tags/error-budget)[#SRE](/case-studies/tags/sre)+4 tags

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