The lift n' shift

This is the continuation of "The script that refused to stay small" . The conversation had already been happening for months: three data centers, rising costs, aging hardware, and a growing sense that the whole setup was one incident away from becoming a liability. The decision came quickly after the "kalima" event: everything had to move. What followed was not elegant, as the platform team scrambled to pull off a lift & shift: hypervisor VMs mapped 1:1 into cloud instances network rules rep