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We built the same Laravel 13 app twice on 26 October 2026. The naive image was 1,938 MB with the .env file inside it; the hardened one was 203 MB. Turning OPcache off cut throughput from 540 to 102 requests per second. Here are the 10 Compose mistakes and the fix for each.
ECS blue/green without downtime: CodeDeploy canary/linear still works, and native ECS BLUE_GREEN (2025+) is now a first-class path. July 2026 checklist: hooks, alarms, dual-run cost.
Manoj V.Monolith → Fargate without a big-bang cutover: containerize, ALB weights 10→50→100, keep blue 2 to 4 weeks. July 2026 cutover checklist.
Palaniappan PAutoscaling was supposed to make costs predictable by matching capacity to demand. Instead, it introduced feedback loops, burst amplification, and, with AI workloads, a new class of non-deterministic spend that no scaling policy anticipates.
Kevin W.Autoscaling surprise bills are pattern-shaped: asymmetric thresholds, bad metrics, Lambda duration, Spot storms. July 2026 refresh: target tracking, Budget Actions, FinOps Agent.
Kevin W.A B2B SaaS stack that costs $500/month at launch does not need to cost $50,000/month at 100,000 users if the architecture decisions at each stage are deliberate. This is the end-to-end reference architecture with real cost numbers.
Palaniappan PPick runtimes by ECS density and team skills, not synthetic RPS. July 2026: FrankenPHP worker vs PHP-FPM, Node, Go memory bands + density matrix.
Palaniappan PA technical guide to running PHP, Python, and Node.js applications on Amazon ECS in production, covering Fargate vs EC2, FrankenPHP vs Nginx+FPM, multi-container task patterns, zero-downtime deployments, and observability.
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