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Insights, opinions, and practical guidance on cloud operations, managed services, and building infrastructure that actually works.

Cloud Backup
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AWS Backup, DocumentDB, and More

Discover the latest AWS updates and announcements from January, including AWS Backup, Amazon DocumentDB, new service SLAs, and more. Learn about the key features and benefits of these updates and how they can improve your AWS infrastructure and applications.

Balance
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Balancing Flexibility and Discipline in Modern Software Development Through Infrastructure Composition

In the new era of modern software development, balancing flexibility and discipline is crucial. Infrastructure composition allows developers to navigate abstraction layers, leverage configuration as code, and take advantage of ecosystem flexibility. However, this requires a recalibration of developer skills to ensure the right balance is struck between speed, quality, and thoughtfulness in the development process.

Remote Monitoring
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Understanding and Optimizing GP2 Performance in Amazon EBS

Maximize your AWS storage performance without breaking the bank. This comprehensive guide demystifies EBS GP2 performance characteristics and reveals commonly misunderstood optimization strategies. Learn how to properly calculate IOPS based on volume size, understand the limitations of burst credits for smaller volumes, and optimize throughput based on your specific workload patterns. Discover why “slow” or “expensive” is a false choice – we’ll show you how strategic volume sizing can deliver the performance you need at significantly lower costs than Provisioned IOPS, potentially saving you over 60% on your AWS storage expenses. Master these practical techniques to achieve optimal EBS performance for your cloud infrastructure.

AWS Recap
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AWS News – re:Invent Recap

Another re:Invent is in the books, and there were dozens of major announcements—too many to summarize effectively in a single post. This recap focuses on the ones most relevant to developers and engineers, which means IoT, HPC and machine learning don’t get a lot of coverage here. Some of the more significant announcements like Control

AWS re:Invent
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AWS re:Invent: The Guide To Not Going

AWS hosts their annual conference next week in Las Vegas, bringing in 40,000+ people from around the world to showcase their company and roll out new and enhanced services for the coming year. AWS re:Invent is a big deal, and for many of us, how we spend 2019 will be greatly shaped by the announcements

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