by ray | May 29, 2019 | Amazon, General News
Amazon announced Thursday it will not build its second headquarters in New York City amid growing opposition to the project. The online retailer faced opposition from some New York politicians, who were unhappy with the nearly $3 billion in tax incentives Amazon was...
by ray | May 29, 2019 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon
The following is a summary of the presentation “How Yelp.com Runs on Apache Mesos in AWS Spot Fleet” delivered by Kyle Anderson, Site Reliability Engineer from Yelp at MesosCon Los Angeles. Anderson helps build and run “PaaSTA”, Yelp’s open source...
by ray | May 28, 2019 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon
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...
by ray | May 28, 2019 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon
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...
by ray | May 28, 2019 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, Atlassian
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...
by ray | May 28, 2019 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon
AWS released A1 Instance Types at re:Invent 2018. Honestly, I didn’t think much about this announcement. I would see the ads for them when logging into the AWS console, and folks seem to be excited about them. So I started digging into what this whole...
