CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming Overview: Gaming company, 500 employees, $100M revenue. 200 on-prem servers (US/EU), MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $150K/mo cost. Business Req: Reduce cost 40%, 5x growth, 3 new regions, daily deployments. Execs: CEO wants scale; CFO caps budget at $100K/mo; CTO needs 99.95% uptime, notes team has limited cloud skills. Tech Req: <100ms global latency, real-time analytics, 5x seasonal spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection. Constraints: 12-month migration, max 4-hour downtime. QUESTION: How should you address the CTO's concern about the team's limited cloud experience while achieving the goal of daily deployments?
A startup is building a new mobile application. They need a backend to handle user authentication, store user profiles, and send push notifications. The engineering team consists of three frontend developers with no backend or infrastructure experience. The CEO wants the app launched in 2 months. Which approach should you recommend?
Your organization is moving from a monolithic architecture with quarterly manual deployments to a microservices architecture with daily automated deployments. The Change Advisory Board (CAB) is concerned about losing control and visibility over what is being deployed. Which TWO practices should you implement to satisfy the CAB while maintaining deployment velocity? (Select TWO)
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