Articles on Praveen Salitra

The SDLC Was Built for Human-Speed Code

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The software development lifecycle most teams ran yesterday was designed when writing code was the slow and expensive part of building software.

That assumption is visible throughout it. Sprints are measured in weeks because implementation took weeks. Estimation exists to predict how long an engineer needs to produce a few thousand lines, a prediction that has never been reliable and gets made anyway. Code review runs after implementation because typing was where defects entered.

Running Kubernetes Workload on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Amazon defines a Spot Instance as ‘an unused EC2 instance that’s available for less than the On-Demand price.’

I call them significantly cheaper instances that AWS snatches away from you when it can get more money for them.

For example, when someone requests an On-Demand Instance or a Reserved Instance, and capacity is close to at-limit, AWS will terminate your Spot Instance to free up capacity for them.

An upcoming Spot Instance interruption only has a 2-minute advance notice. Yes, 2 minutes.

Your Cloud Spend Doesn't Have to be that Ridiculously High

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

One of our customers’ cloud accounts gave me a jolt. Such a strong one, in fact, that here I am typing furiously into the night. Working on that account and seeing the final results took me aback.

They managed to bring down annual cloud costs by a cool $2 million – a saving of 60%! No, they didn’t wave a magic wand. We just needed to take a closer look at their cloud architecture. That’s it!

10 Ways to Reduce Cloud Costs

Thu, 20 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Computer System and Method for Performing a Virtual Load Test

Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000