A startup's infrastructure - how to make scaling a sales, not a tech issue
summary
A bootstrapped startup builds ARGOS Cloud Security on Azure Functions + Cosmos DB with Application Insights, Pulumi for IaC and GitHub Actions for CI, and it already handles roughly 17 million requests/month and 3.3M+ documents (~3.28M resources) across scans of AWS/Azure/GCP. Deployment uses Consumption then Premium plans, leverages Cosmos free tier (1k RU/s, 25GB) early, hits a $600 RU bill before query and indexing fixes, then reduces costs and keeps scaling fully managed.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:20Startup infrastructure
- 2:25Who am I
- 3:25Why build another cloud security product
- 4:55Golden Rules
- 7:00Architecture Diagram
- 11:00Infrastructure
- 14:00Why Functions
- 17:45Why Cosmos DB
- 21:27Scaling
- 24:13Tips Tricks
- 31:24Questions
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