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Master CockroachDB multi-region deployments: table localities, follower reads, transaction retries, zone configs, and survivability goals.
Your serverless function takes 3-4 seconds on the first request, then 50ms on subsequent ones. This is cold start latency — and it''s the #1 complaint about serverless architectures. Here''s what causes it, how to measure it, and exactly how to minimize it.
"It works on staging" is one of the most dangerous phrases in software. The timeout is 5 seconds in dev, 30 seconds in prod. The cache TTL is different. The database pool size is different. The feature flag is on in staging but off in prod. Config drift makes every deployment a gamble.
Harden container images with multi-stage builds, distroless images, non-root users, vulnerability scanning (Trivy), SBOM generation (Syft), image signing (Cosign), and admission controllers to block unsigned images.
Build secure containers with non-root users, distroless base images, multi-stage builds, and runtime security. Learn seccomp profiles, image scanning, SBOM generation.