In September, I worked on improving Pika’s image performance. I’ve had a long career now (25 years 😭) doing mostly web-programming tasks, yet somehow I’ve never set up a CDN myself. I suppose the "management years" right as my prior organization was getting bigger contributed to missing out on that experience. In any case, the work was overdue on Pika and it was time to tackle it. Through a bit of help from online articles and online friends, I’ve gotten it mostly figured out. Here...| Good Enough
Bring your website into its best era yet with website tips inspired by Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl. Use our handy checklist to glow-up your site!| www.culturefoundry.com
In this post, Amazon ECS announces support for IPv6-only workloads, allowing users to run containerized applications in IPv6-only environments without IPv4 dependencies while maintaining compatibility with existing applications and AWS services. The new capability helps organizations address IPv4 address exhaustion challenges, streamline network architecture, improve security posture, and meet compliance requirements for IPv6 adoption.| Amazon Web Services
So me and my girlfriend have been playing with the idea of starting a blog for quite some time now. Having a day off I’ve decided to put it to good use and start creating one. Being a developer I’ve had a few concerns when it came to choosing a blog framework: I’m a control freak so I’d prefer hosting it myself. Blogging platforms are out of the question. I like markdown - the blog must support it. It must be lightweight. It must be easily deployable to s3 static website hosting. I sh...| Dizzy zone
Unlock the value of generative AI for your business. Learn from executives about strong security and cloud foundations, skilling your workforce, and implementing AI responsibly.| Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Snap was born in the cloud — launching its flagship app, Snapchat, in 2011 on a cloud-native, monolithic architecture. As the app grew in popularity, Snap migrated to a microservices architecture on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve scalability, optimize availability, minimize latency, and reduce costs. On AWS, Snap now supports more than 306 million Snapchat users sending over 5.4 billion Snaps daily with 20 percent less latency than its prior architecture. Freed from managing infrastru...| Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Learn how DoorDash rapidly scaled the implementation of an event-driven architecture using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.| Amazon Web Services, Inc.
In this post, we explore the migration path from AWS CodeDeploy to Amazon ECS for blue/green deployments, discussing key architectural differences and implementation considerations. We examine three different migration approaches - in-place update, new service with existing load balancer, and new service with new load balancer - along with their respective trade-offs in terms of complexity, risk, downtime, and cost.| Amazon Web Services
Many ask themselves, “Why would I use a semantic layer? What is it anyway?” In this hands-on guide, we’ll build the simplest possible semantic layer using just a YAML file and a Python script—not as the goal itself, but as a way to understand the value of semantic layers. We’ll then query 20 million NYC taxi records with consistent business metrics executed using DuckDB and Ibis. By the end, you’ll know exactly when a semantic layer solves real problems and when it’s overkill.| Data Engineering Blog
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that helps you distribute your static and dynamic content quickly and reliably with high speed performance, security, and developer ease-of-use.| Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will invest more than US $5 billion in new data storage and cloud computing centers in the Bajío region of Mexico.| Mexico News Daily
