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Web3 Protocol: 99.95% Uptime Infrastructure for a DeFi API
A DeFi data aggregator serving 400 trading firms through a REST and WebSocket API had experienced three outages in four months, each lasting 40–90 minutes. Their infrastructure was two EC2 instances behind a load balancer with no auto-recovery. We rebuilt it on EKS with multi-AZ deployment, circuit breakers, and automated failover.
Deploy time
Manual deploy, ~45 min, riskyBlue-green, 6 minutes, instant rollback
Deploy freq
Weekly (fear of deploying)Daily
Zero outages in 6 months post-migrationRead