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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 — the number one complaint about serverless architectures. Here is what causes it and exactly how to minimize it.
Config drift happens when environment-specific configuration diverges gradually through manual changes and undocumented tweaks. The result is a staging environment that no longer reflects production, making every deployment a gamble.
Harden container images with multi-stage builds, distroless images, non-root users, vulnerability scanning with Trivy, SBOM generation with Syft, image signing with 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.