Stack Overflow does a serious amount of traffic (terabytes per day) but what equipment and services are they using? This is a nice writeup of how their system is architected.
The New Stack’s Alex Williams reflects on how container-based architectures and microservices are dominating current thoughts over the web operations space.
An incredibly active Reddit discussion on what’s involved in migrating a datacenter of 80 physical servers (and 225 VMs) to Amazon Web Services instead.
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A key change in the Web performance world lately has been a shift to using metrics that do a better job of measuring the user experience. Steve Souders takes a look at a ‘critical resources’ metric here.
A team was noticing every 6-12 hours, their RDS write throughput would spike significantly. This is a look at how they dug into it and resolved the issue.
AWS Lambda has a 5 minute execution time limit, but if you need to go beyond this, you can use this technique to roll your own Lambda on AWS using ECS.
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