Your website is slow but you’re not sure why. You do know that it’s impacting your business. Are you losing customers to the competition? It happens if the website is not scaled properly. Scalability is the key to overcome this problem. But you must need some tips for scalability. In this guide, we are going…
I was shocked to find this article on ReadWrite: The Truth About DevOps: IT Isn’t Dead; It’s not even Dying. Wait a second, do people really think this? Truth is I have heard whispers of this before. I was at a meetup recently where the speaker claimed “With more automation, you can eliminate ops. You can…
I was just reading over StackOverflow’s 2017 Developer survey. As it turns out there were some surprising findings. One that stood out was databases. In the media, one hears more and more about NoSQL databases like Cassandra, Dynamo & Firebase. Despite all that MySQL seems to remain the most popular database by a large margin. Legacy indeed!…
In the past two years, we’ve written a ton of material on scalability. Here are the greatest hits… Why Generalists Are Better at Scaling the Web The internet stack is a complex infrastructure of interlocking components. An scalability engineer must be adept at Linux, plus webservers, caching servers, search servers, automation services, and relational databases…
As DevOps adoption picks up pace, the signs are everywhere. Infrastructure as code once a backwater concept, and a hoped-for ideal, has become an essential to many startups. Why Might That Be? My theory is that devops enables the business in a lot of profound ways. Sure it means one sysadmin can do much more,…
A consultant costs more per hour than a developer you can hire right? That depends! A big firm may cost a few thousand per day. But a smaller firm or one-man shop can bring you savings in line with a team hire. 1. You’re Still Looking Have you been looking for 3 months? 6 months?…
More and more startups are looking at Redshift as a cheaper & faster solution for big data & analytics. Saggi Neumann posted a pretty good side-by-side comparison of Redshift & Hadoop and concluded they were tied based on your individual use case. Meanwhile, Bitly Engineering concluded Redshift was much easier. Why Should You Choose Redshift Outpacing Hadoop…
I was just reading Oliver Eidel’s blog. He had a great post, with some provocative ideas. Pioneers versus Process people. Now since I love to play devil’s advocate, after reading this thought-provoking article, I thought I would write a bit of my take. Are Pioneers and Process Really Characteristics Of Two Different People? As Oliver describes…
I was recently reading Greg Kogan’s blog Simple Systems have less downtime. It really caught my attention. As a professional services consultant over the years, I’ve worked with almost 200 firms. And many of those required the unraveling of complex systems. And systems that were no longer well understood after the first wave of builders have…
I was just reading the Register, which is sort of the UK’s version of Slashdot, and they had a jaw-dropping title. NASA moved 247 petabytes into AWS and then later learned about EGRESS costs OMG! Facepalm. Wow. To say this is a disaster is an understatement. Could it have been prevented? Not likely by 100% strategic…
