Bookmarks tagged “aws”
20 bookmarks tagged “aws”
Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices
The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move saved them a staggering 90%(!!) on operating costs, and simplified the system too.
Don't be fooled by serverless
Cloud aficionados love pinning the true promise of the cloud on serverless functions and services. Not getting the savings you thought you would with the cloud? It's because you didn't go serverless. Frustrated with the complexity of the cloud? Serverless! Performance questions?
The Big Cloud Exit FAQ
Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overpriced enterprise service contracts. The mission was set! A month
Exploring the infrastructure and code behind modern edge functions - Stack
Z-order indexing for multifaceted queries in Amazon DynamoDB: Part 2 | Amazon Web Services
In a previous AWS Database Blog post, I introduced Z-order indexing, a way in which you can sort your data to efficiently query an Amazon DynamoDB table by using range bounds on multiple attributes. In this post, we explore the process of creating a schema for your index. We look
Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing cost
We create and provide access to world-class entertainment through Amazon Originals, Prime Video, Audible, Amazon Games, Twitch, Amazon Music, Prime Gaming, and more. Amazon’s digital entertainment products enable customers to access the latest apps and games, stream or download m
The Distributed Computing Manifesto | All Things Distributed
Today, I am publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto, a canonical document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of Amazon's ecommerce platform. It highlights the challenges we were facing at the end of the 20th century, and hints at where we were
Combining the Best of AWS EventBridge and AWS Kinesis | by John Gilbert | M
I have been using AWS Kinesis extensively and effectively, with AWS Lambda, since 2015. I am a big fan. Now we have another great alternative, AWS EventBridge. Each has its strengths and weaknesses…
Security September: Escaping CodeBuild - The compromise that wasn't – One C
Aidan pushes the boundaries of CodeBuild and comes away pleasantly surprised. This is the second of a 5-part series on AWS exploits and similar findings discovered through the course of 2020.
Why Atlassian uses an internal PaaS to regulate AWS access - Atlassian Deve
Unleashing the potential of all teams with tips, tools, and practices
Why Container Devs Need to Care about re:Invent 2019’s Serverless Launches
A field guide to the 2019 AWS re:Invent Serverless launches.
An Honest Review of AWS Managed Apache Kafka: Amazon MSK
This article was written when Amazon MSK was released in beta form and since then MSK has tremendously improved. I have created an online course in partnership with AWS to help you learn it and I’ve…
A Year Of Running Kubernetes at MYOB, And The Importance Of Empathy.
In a year, we had 100 production apps across 26 tribes running on our cluster; we drove ISO 27001 compliance across 12 products, and taught 200 developers how to productionize software.
Serverless Best Practices - Paul Johnston - Medium
Within the community we’ve been debating the best practices for many years, but there are a few that have been relatively accepted for most of that time. Most serverless practitioners who subscribe…
Serverless is a Doctrine, not a Technology - Paul Johnston - Medium
I have spent the last few years in the serverless community trying to figure out how to help other people understand what it means to “go serverless”. For me in recent months talking about serverless…
Amazon's Build System
Amazon's Build System. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Z-Order Indexing for Multifaceted Queries in Amazon DynamoDB: Part 1 | Amazon Web Services
Update from May 29, 2018: Today, we published Z-order indexing for multifaceted queries in Amazon DynamoDB: Part 2. TL;DR Using Z-order indexing, you can efficiently run range queries on any combination of fields in your schema. Although Amazon DynamoDB doesn’t natively support Z
Why the Fuss About Serverless? | HackerNoon
To explain this, I’m going to have to recap on some old work with a particular focus on co-evolution.