Today part of Amazon Web Services failed, taking down with it a slew of startups that all run on Amazon’s Cloud infrastructure. AirBNB was one of the biggest, but also Heroku, Reddit, Minecraft, Flipboard & Coursera down with it. Its not the first time. What the heck happened, and why should we care? 1. Root …
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Road War Story – Hacking Inflight Solutions
The 2am phone call Last summer I got my call from the president at 2am. Actually it was my former boss at Hollywood Reporter. I had worked there three months previous, and they had since hired an outsourced DBA solution. Big outsource, big chops. And big fail. 12 hours to liftoff I …
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