Cutting security scan times by 80% with async orchestration
How re-architecting a Dockerized pentest pipeline from sequential to async execution took scans from 15 minutes down to 3 — and what it taught me about orchestration.
6 min readBackend & distributed systems
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Mathew Thomas
Bangalore, India · IST
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100K+
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- 80%
- scan-time cut via async orchestration
- 83%
- drop in auth failures I shipped
- 3
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