Monthly Update May 2021

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 11:40:52 +0100

Hello,

As promised in my last monthly email, I’m now sharing monthly the progress achieved in the previous month and what’s coming soon.

I’ve also resumed the monthly AskMeAnything-style community calls, and below you can see the recording of our previous one.

(The recording of this call is unfortunately no longer available online.)

Progress report May 2021

I helped polish further the contribution by Alberto (mello7tre on Github), which simplified the event handling logic by introducing a FIFO SQS queue for serializing AutoScaling operations (such as temporarily extending the maximum capacity and suspending AutoScaling processes) instead of previously calling an auxiliary Lambda function with concurrency 1. The code and internal architecture is significantly cleaner and much more robust after our initial tests and I’m very happy with the way it works. I’d really appreciate if you could give it a try in a test environment and please let me know if you run into any issues.
this month I also merged the EBS storage upgrade logic that converts GP2 volumes to 20% cheaper and more performant GP3 volumes for EBS volumes smaller than 170GB. There’s also a change for similarly converting IO2 volumes to IO3, but that’s unlikely to make much of a difference for Spot use cases. This is also available in the current nightly build, and here’s how it looks like for GP2 volumes: