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Right-sizing compute: cutting cloud spend without downtime
COMPUTE

Right-sizing compute: cutting cloud spend without downtime

Most clusters are paying for headroom they never use. We trimmed compute spend substantially while improving tail latency — here is the method.

Apr 14, 2026 · 1 min read
Container scheduling
PRODUCT

Container scheduling at scale: lessons from 50M deployments

Scheduling 50 million container deployments teaches things no whitepaper can. Real-world lessons that shaped the Stratum container orchestration engine — from resource-bin packing to handling a 40-node fleet failure at 3 a.m.

Mar 29, 2026 · 3 min read
From git push to global deploy in 90 seconds
PLATFORM

From git push to global deploy in 90 seconds

A fast pipeline changes how a team works. When deploys are quick and safe, people ship small and often. Here is how ours runs.

Feb 25, 2026 · 1 min read
Zero-downtime deploys with health-checked rollouts
COMPUTE

Zero-downtime deploys with health-checked rollouts

A bad deploy should never reach your users. We gate every rollout behind readiness and liveness probes, drain connections gracefully, and roll back automatically the moment error rates climb past the threshold.

Sep 14, 2021 · 2 min read
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COMPUTE

Autoscaling stateless services on real demand signals

CPU is a lagging indicator. We scale on request concurrency and queue depth instead, so capacity tracks actual load and you stop paying for idle instances during quiet hours.

Sep 14, 2021 · 1 min read
Postgres scaling
DATABASES

Scaling Postgres to 10 TB without sharding

Most teams shard their database too early and pay the complexity cost for years. Stratum Managed Postgres is designed to push the single-instance ceiling as far as possible — to 10 TB and beyond — using connection pooling, read replicas, and intelligent query routing before a shard boundary ever appears.

Apr 30, 2026 · 3 min read

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Security

Encryption, compliance, and access control.

AI / ML

GPUs, inference, and model deployment.

Observability

Metrics, tracing, and logging at scale.

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