01
Sam
“We should establish the platform before growth accelerates.”
GitOps, autoscaling, managed Kubernetes, service mesh.
FIELD REPORT 003
We have 400 users
The infrastructure review scales faster than the product.
REQUEST
Traffic doubled. The product now has 400 monthly active users.
02
Riley
“I upgraded the VPS.”
CPU utilization returns to 9%.
03
Six months later
The VPS is now business-critical.
Riley adds a second VPS, health checks, failover and configuration sync.
04
Sam
“That’s adorable.”
Riley has manually rediscovered a small orchestration platform.
OBSERVED BEHAVIOR