Schedule design patterns
Schedule design patterns
5 lessons.
Read in order, or jump to what you need.
Four envs: dev / test / stage / prod
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to assign the right schedule pattern to each of dev/test/stage/prod, estimate the cost reduction from environment-aware scheduling, and adapt the…
Scale-to-one weekend pattern
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to apply the scale-to-one pattern for weekend cost reduction without full shutdown, choose between scale-to-zero, scale-to-one, and always-on, and…
Rolling test environment
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to implement rolling test environments that scale up per-test and down after, calculate the cost savings vs always-on, and mitigate the cold-start…
Freeze windows
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to implement schedule freeze windows for holidays and special events, choose the right granularity , and communicate freezes to the team to avoid surprise.
Demo / prod-like environments
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to distinguish demo-prod from staging/dev/prod, configure the right schedule pattern for sales demos / training / investor showcases, and recover the…