AWS

Just how effective is web server caching? Very.

DevOps, Galting, Lightsail, Load Testing, nginx, PHP
2018-11-072018-12-26

Learn how to setup a high load CMS for less than the cost of lunch.

CloudWatch Agent on Lightsail

AWS, CloudWatch, DevOps, Lightsail
2018-11-062018-11-06

Lightsail is an affordable low barrier VPS service from AWS; but it lacks proper monitoring and metrics. Herein read how to use CloudWatch with Lightsail compute instances.

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‘SpotInst’; use EC2 instance types dynamically to save money.

AWS, Cloud Computing, Community, DevOps
2018-10-312018-10-31

Save money, use more spot instances.

Achievement Unlocked! All AWS Associate + Practitioner Certifications obtained.

AWS, Cetifications, Community, General
2018-10-222018-10-22

In a little a year I have been able to take and pass all 3 associate + practitioner certifications from AWS. Here are my thoughts about this past year.

Migrating from AWS EC2 to AWS Lightsail.

AWS, Cloud Computing, DevOps, General, Lightsail
2018-10-042018-10-07

Migrating a Wordpress App from EC2 to Lightsail for cost savings.

The case against Terraform to prevent vendor lock-in.

AWS, Cloud Computing, Terraform
2018-09-262018-10-07

While I like Terraform, using it to prevent vendor lock in is bul***it; The belief of preventing vendor lock in is a false promise of freedom framed by a non-issue.

Achievement Unlocked: AWS Certified Developer Assoc. (DA)

AWS, Certification, General
2018-09-192018-09-28

After many months of delay and procrastination I finally scheduled to sit the AWS Developer Assoc. exam. I was passing the practice exams from acloud.guru with > 90 repeatably and… Read More »Achievement Unlocked: AWS Certified Developer Assoc. (DA)

PHP serverless abstraction framework…

Lambda, PHP
2018-05-24

…as serverless architecture picks up steam in the market I predict we will see more and more languages adopting it; is not whole sale from the vendors then from the… Read More »PHP serverless abstraction framework…

AWS Lambda internals

Community, Lambda, Python
2018-05-15

Ran and Nitzan over at epsagon did a two part article on Medium about AWS Lambda and its internals / runtime environment. It is a pretty interesting read if you are… Read More »AWS Lambda internals

NoSQL search results in MICRO-seconds; via AWS’s new DynamoDB Accelerator.

DynamoDB
2018-05-01

If you have a noSQL data store and need the fast machine possible response time; check this out: Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Regional Expansion “…Using DAX, you can improve the… Read More »NoSQL search results in MICRO-seconds; via AWS’s new DynamoDB Accelerator.