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Millennials are flooding into these 25 US cities to find good jobs and earn more money
Millennials still favor big metro areas like New York City and San Francisco, but they're increasingly attracted to up-and-coming cities like Raleigh and Louisville, according to a MagnifyMoney report.MagnifyMoney ranked the biggest boomtowns...
How to Optimize Images: A Practical Guide
Want to know how to Serve Scaled Images and Optimize Your Images? We’ll show you how! As a conclusion to our What Does Optimizing Images Mean? post, we’ll show you how to actually solve your image optimization woes. This walkthrough is general enough to...
WordPress Optimization Guide
A step-by-step guide on how to optimize your WordPress installation. Overview Many of our users run WordPress either as a CMS or blog platform. With a lot of great plugins available, it’s easy to create a full-featured website with a lot of neat functionality. These...
AWS Lightsail load balancers
A Lightsail load balancer distributes incoming application traffic among multiple Lightsail instances, in multiple Availability Zones. Load balancing can increase the fault tolerance of your applications and helps makes them more highly available. The load balancer...
Amazon Lightsail vs. EC2: Do updates tip the scale?
Developers can use Amazon Lightsail to spin up servers and web applications as a single package. It's less configurable than what they can create on Amazon EC2, but it's also a lot easier to deploy and estimate costs. In 2017, I wrote a detailed analysis on...
Atlassian’s not-so-magic journey scaling low latency, multi-region services on AWS
Engineering stateless, high-availability cloud services comes with juuuuuuust a few challenges. Here’s how we (eventually) slayed the dragon. Atlassian went “all in” on AWS in 2016 and they continue to be our preferred cloud provider. The extent of that migration was...