How Prometheus, Flagsmith, and Some Good Old-Fashioned Compression Helped Us Solve Customer Pain

Facing limitations due to DynamoDB constraints, a team sought to address customer demands for increased data storage on their edge network. Initially considering a complex data architecture overhaul, they opted instead for a more straightforward solution: compressing JSON environment documents using gzip, which proved highly effective in reducing document size by 90%. This compression mitigated the storage issue, reduced DynamoDB read latency by 66%, and decreased weekly read capacity unit consumption by 71%. The phased rollout strategy employed feature flags to manage the deployment safely and effectively, ensuring any bugs were identified and resolved swiftly without affecting customers. This approach not only addressed the immediate problem but also paved the way for removing existing storage limits, thus improving the product's scalability and customer satisfaction.

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