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Queue-it @queueit

Helping you build online trust by delivering fair, transparent & reliable experiences, one high-traffic event at a time.

Joined April 2010
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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 youtu.be/B07nzWlx_dI
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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 youtu.be/B07nzWlx_dI
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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 youtu.be/B07nzWlx_dI

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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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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 youtu.be/B07nzWlx_dI
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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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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 youtu.be/9IVk8j8RJd4
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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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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: youtu.be/CBHWUKFhoOM

Autoscaling in Production: When It Works and When It Doesn't with...

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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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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: youtu.be/CBHWUKFhoOM

Autoscaling in Production: When It Works and When It Doesn't with...

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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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Mar 18
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 👇 aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/how…

How to manage peak traffic on AWS using Queue-it’s virtual waiting room | Amazon Web Services

Queue-it, an AWS Partner, integrates with Amazon CloudFront to provide virtual waiting room capabilities that control visitor flow during high-traffic events—addressing scenarios where traffic spikes...

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Mar 18
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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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.
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Your autoscaling strategy won't save you anymore. AI agents don't browse. They don't hesitate. If something goes on sale at 10:00, every agent on the internet is there at 10:00:01 — and that burst will be more violent than anything we've seen before.
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Hans Skovgaard, CTO & CPO at Queue-it, explains why the internet just changed — and what engineers need to do about it. 🎙️ Smooth Scaling Ep. 21 - Listen to the complete episode on your favorite Podcast Player.
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