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What were the main challenges the client faced before John Mosquera's containerization project, and how did his solution address them?
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Prior to John's intervention, the mid-sized London firm faced three major challenges with their legacy application on Azure VMs: 1) High operational costs due to inefficient resource utilization and potentially unnecessary licensing; 2) Limited scalability during peak trading hours, which likely affected their business performance when demand was highest; and 3) Inconsistent performance caused by manual configuration drift across environments, leading to reliability issues. John Mosquera addressed these by implementing Docker and AKS, which provided optimized resource allocation (reducing costs by 50%), enabled dynamic scaling through horizontal pod autoscalers (allowing the platform to handle double the previous load), and standardized the deployment process through CI/CD pipelines and Helm charts (eliminating inconsistencies between environments). The client's legacy application on Azure VMs presented three critical challenges: high operational costs, poor scalability during peak hours, and inconsistent performance across environments. Mosquera's containerization solution directly addressed each issue, cutting costs by half, doubling load capacity, and standardizing deployments—transforming not just their technology stack but their ability to deliver reliable service to customers.