December 24, 2020

Heroku Dynos: Standard vs Performance

An analysis of web request latency from Heroku's difference dyno sizes. Spoiler: use performance if latency matters.

May 29, 2020

Effective CloudFormation

CloudFormation is a huge technology; we highlight the best bits that every devops engineer needs to know.

April 11, 2020

CloudFormation Quick create: Creating an S3 Bucket and IAM User

CloudFormation's "Quick Create stack" features simplifies AWS for novice users.

February 14, 2020

S3 Throughput: Scans vs Indexes

A comparison of S3 throughput with many requests for small files or one request for a large file.

January 21, 2020

Binary Diffs on JAR Files with s3patch

Deep dive on how we chose between bsdiff and xdelta3 for binary diffs for s3patch, a tool for patching files on S3.

December 30, 2019

AWS API Gateway Example

Tutorial walking through how to build a REST API using AWS components.

November 6, 2019

Hello, WARC: Common Crawl code samples

Code samples and benchmarks for processing Common Crawl WARC files in Python, Java, Go and Node.