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What if your business lost access to its hypercaler? 🌩️

Resilience planning is about working through the scenarios you hope never happen.

In the latest episode of the Smooth Scaling Podcast, Klaus Koefoed explains why leaders need to ask: what would it mean if they did?

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Sam Dhar (@satyamdhar), Senior Staff Engineer and AI infrastructure leader at Galileo, talking with Jose Quaresma on the Smooth Scaling Podcast.

Listen to Smooth Scaling wherever you get your Podcasts or in https://t.co/a63xcObmYA

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the most advanced way to ship software in 2026 is to put an engineer on a plane.

no pipeline reaches an air-gapped cluster. someone installs it by hand on the other side.

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Sam Dhar (@satyamdhar), Senior Staff Engineer and AI infrastructure leader at Galileo, talking with Jose Quaresma on the Smooth Scaling Podcast.

Listen to Smooth Scaling wherever you get your Podcasts or in https://t.co/a63xcObmYA

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anyone can ship a little productivity app this year.

almost none of them survive the moment someone tries to charge for them. that's not a code problem. it's a scale problem.

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Sam Dhar (@satyamdhar), Senior Staff Engineer and AI infrastructure leader at Galileo, talking with Jose Quaresma on the Smooth Scaling Podcast.

Listen to Smooth Scaling wherever you get your Podcasts or in https://t.co/a63xcObmYA

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you signed the data deal with your model provider. cool.

the vendors helping you tune and evaluate that model are still sitting in the read path of everything it sees.

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Sam Dhar (@satyamdhar), Senior Staff Engineer and AI infrastructure leader at Galileo, talking with Jose Quaresma on the Smooth Scaling Podcast.

Listen to Smooth Scaling wherever you get your Podcasts or in https://t.co/a63xcObmYA

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everyone's plan to cut ai costs is the same: self-host it.

nobody can actually get the gpus. and the few who can still can't make the math work.

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Chris Nesbitt-Smith on the Smooth Scaling Podcast with Jose Quaresma. on running kubernetes in production since v0.4, and why he'd reach for a managed service every time now.

Listen to Smooth Scaling wherever you get your Podcasts or in https://t.co/1tsiktJegC

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Running your own Kubernetes cluster looks very clever right up until 4am.

Every bit of operational responsibility you take on is a debt your successor pays.

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Zaigham Sarfaraz, Engineering Manager at Queue-it, on the traffic pattern no autoscaler can touch — talking with Jose Quaresma on the Smooth Scaling Podcast.

Listen to the Smooth Scaling Podcast wherever you get your Podcasts: https://t.co/AXJhSHfhVB

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"why don't they just use autoscaling?"

it's the question every new queue-it hire asks.

the answer changes how you think about traffic spikes.

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Šimon Bučko, Senior Software Engineer at Queue-it, on why small teams should think twice before going horizontal — talking with Jose Quaresma on the Smooth Scaling Podcast.

Listen to the Smooth Scaling Podcast wherever you get your Podcasts: https://t.co/AXJhSHfhVB

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Some "scalable microservices" can become distributed spaghetti.

Vertical scaling is still a valid answer in certain scenarios.

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10,000 log events all saying "error." But where?
@irisdyrmishi from @MiroHQ on why tracing turns a two-hour investigation into a two-second one.
New Smooth Scaling ep 🎧👇

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When demand spikes, control matters.

With @awscloud, we break down how Queue-it manages peak traffic so systems stay stable & access stays fair:

⚙️ Edge control with CloudFront
🤝 Fair access by design
🏗️ Architecture built for scale

Check it out 👇
https://t.co/x09P8pHRFl

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Every second of downtime during peak traffic is revenue lost.
@irisdyrmishi from @MiroHQ on why observability is a scaling strategy — from cutting incident time to uncovering hidden cloud costs with eBPF.
New Smooth Scaling ep 🎧👇

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Check the full episode in Queue-it's youtube channel or your favorite podcast player

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The "bots vs. humans" model is dead. 🤖👨
For years: bots = bad, humans = good. Simple.
That's over.
The new question isn't who is visiting your site — it's what they intend to do.
Hans Skovgaard, CTO & CPO at Queue-it, on the shift every engineer needs to understand.