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Kalyan Reddy Daida @stacksimplify
Joined March 2019
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I cut my EKS costs from $21/day to $3/day. 85% reduction. Same workloads. Zero downtime. Here's the exact strategy using Karpenter ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡
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388 days of learning. Completed in 50 days. I launched my biggest DevOps course 50 days ago. โ†’ 3,114 students enrolled โ†’ 9,325 hours of learning โ†’ 208 ratings โ€” 4.7โญ โ†’ 13,000 minutes consumed daily Here's what surprised me ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡
50-Day Milestone Infographic for Ultimate DevOps Real-World Project on AWS course: 3,114 students enrolled, 9,325 hours of learning, 559K minutes taught, 208 ratings with 4.7 stars. 388 days of continuous learning completed in 50 days, 13K minutes consumed daily, 55 hands-on demos. Students building Production EKS Clusters, Karpenter Autoscaling, CI/CD with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, OpenTelemetry Observability, 5-Microservice Retail Store App, 5 AWS Managed Services, 70% AWS Cost Savings, Terraform IaC. By Kalyan Reddy Daida, StackSimplify.

ALT 50-Day Milestone Infographic for Ultimate DevOps Real-World Project on AWS course: 3,114 students enrolled, 9,325 hours of learning, 559K minutes taught, 208 ratings with 4.7 stars. 388 days of continuous learning completed in 50 days, 13K minutes consumed daily, 55 hands-on demos. Students building Production EKS Clusters, Karpenter Autoscaling, CI/CD with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, OpenTelemetry Observability, 5-Microservice Retail Store App, 5 AWS Managed Services, 70% AWS Cost Savings, Terraform IaC. By Kalyan Reddy Daida, StackSimplify.

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What keeps me going โ€” the messages: "Finally understand how all these tools fit together." "Implemented Karpenter at work because of your course." "This is how DevOps should be taught."
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If you've been on the fence โ€” 3,114 engineers already started. 21 sections. 55 demos. Everything runs on real AWS. ๐Ÿ”— Course: udemy.com/course/aws-eks-kubโ€ฆ What DevOps tool did you struggle with most? ๐Ÿ‘‡

Ultimate DevOps Real-World Project Implementation AWS Cloud

COURSE MODULES - 55 HANDS-ON DEMOS SECTION 1: PROJECT OVERVIEW Module-01: Complete Retail Store Microservices Architecture - Full-stack e-commerce application with 5 microservices - Multi-language...

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"Spot instances are too risky for production." I hear this all the time. Let me prove you wrong ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡

ALT Animated diagram showing Karpenter Spot interruption handling in 6 stages. Stage 1: Normal operation with 5 pods on Spot Node-1. Stage 2: AWS sends interruption warning via EventBridge to SQS, Karpenter detects. Stage 3: First eviction wave, Pod-1 and Pod-2 migrate to new Node-2, PDB enforces minAvailable 3. Stage 4: Second eviction wave, remaining pods migrate. Stage 5: Old node terminates, all pods on Node-2. Stage 6: Migration complete, zero downtime achieved, all 5 pods running stable on new Spot node.

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The math: On-Demand: $100/month Spot: $30/month (70% savings) "But what about interruptions?" โ€ข Interruption rate: ~5%/month โ€ข Recovery time: 90 seconds โ€ข Service impact: ZERO You're paying 3x more for "stability" you don't need.
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Spot Karpenter PDB = 70% savings Zero downtime. That's not a tradeoff. That's an upgrade. Full demo in my course: ๐Ÿ”— udemy.com/course/aws-eks-kubโ€ฆ Still afraid of Spot? Ask me anything ๐Ÿ‘‡ #AWS #Kubernetes #SpotInstances

Ultimate DevOps Real-World Project Implementation AWS Cloud

COURSE MODULES - 55 HANDS-ON DEMOS SECTION 1: PROJECT OVERVIEW Module-01: Complete Retail Store Microservices Architecture - Full-stack e-commerce application with 5 microservices - Multi-language...

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I built a DevOps course that earned two Udemy badges in 30 days: ๐Ÿ† Highest Rated ๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot & New 2,504 students. 4.7 rating. 161 reviews. Here's what's inside ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡
Udemy course page showing "Ultimate DevOps Real-World Project Implementation AWS Cloud" with two badges: Highest Rated and Hot & New. Course has 4.7 star rating, 161 reviews, and 2,504 students. Created by Kalyan Reddy Daida, DevOps & SRE Architect.

ALT Udemy course page showing "Ultimate DevOps Real-World Project Implementation AWS Cloud" with two badges: Highest Rated and Hot & New. Course has 4.7 star rating, 161 reviews, and 2,504 students. Created by Kalyan Reddy Daida, DevOps & SRE Architect.

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โœ… GitOps CI/CD Pipeline โ†’ GitHub Actions with OIDC (no static credentials!) โ†’ ArgoCD for declarative deployments โ†’ Automated sync strategies โ†’ Complete production workflow This is how modern teams ship code.
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55 hands-on demos. Zero "hello world" tutorials. This isn't a course you watch. It's a course you implement. ๐Ÿ”— udemy.com/course/aws-eks-kubโ€ฆ Questions? ๐Ÿ‘‡ #DevOps #AWS #Kubernetes

Ultimate DevOps Real-World Project Implementation AWS Cloud

COURSE MODULES - 55 HANDS-ON DEMOS SECTION 1: PROJECT OVERVIEW Module-01: Complete Retail Store Microservices Architecture - Full-stack e-commerce application with 5 microservices - Multi-language...

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