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The post expresses gratitude towards thoughtbot and emphasizes the importance of Free Open Source Software (FOSS) in software development. It recounts the author's journey with PyPI.org, detailing the replacement of outdated code libraries with modern solutions, while promoting collaboration in open-source communities. The author encourages others to participate in FOSS projects.
It starts, as many stories do, with a question. On September 10th, AWS Serverless Hero Luc van Donkersgoed shared his observations on the relationship of reduced latency with increased request rate when using AWS Lambda. This is always an interesting conversation, and sure enough other AWS Heroes like myself are curious about some of the Continue reading Reduce AWS Lambda Latencies with Keep-Alive…
In a containerized world, is there a material difference between communicating over local network TCP vs local Unix domain sockets?
This year’s Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference in Las Vega, Nevada, was a veritable smorgasbord of announcements, product launches, previews, and a ton of information to try and digest at once. One very exciting announcement was AWS DeepComposer which continues to expand on AWS’ mission of “Putting machine learning in the hands of every Continue reading AWS DeepComposer…
The Problem Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pretty cool. You ought to know that by now. if you don t, take a few hours and check out some tutorials and play around. One of the many services AWS provides is the EC2 Container Service (ECS), where the scheduling and lifecycle management of running Docker containers is Continue reading Extending ECS Auto-scaling for under $2/month with Lambda
When approaching a new service provider, sometimes it can be confusing on how to get set up to best communicate with them some processes involve multiple steps, multiple interfaces, confusing terminology, and Amazon Web Services is an amazing cloud services provider, and in order to allow access informational services inside a customer s account, a Continue reading Setting Up a Datadog-to-AWS…
Datadog is great at pulling in large amounts of metrics, and provides a web-based platform to explore, find, and monitor a variety of systems. One such system integration is PostgresQL (aka Postgres , PG ) a popular Open Source object-relational database system, ranking #4 in its class (at the time of this writing), with over 15 Continue reading Counts are good, States are better
You may have heard some buzz around the launch of Chef s new open source project Habitat (still in beta), designed to change a bit of how we think about building and delivering software applications in the modern age. There s a lot of press, video announcement, and even a Food Fight Show where we got to Continue reading There s a New Player in Town, named Habitat
TL; DR: I’m excited about taking a break from work for a bit, and enjoying some lazy summer days. Let’s drink a glass of wine sometime, and May the Fourth Be With You!
Quick self-reminder on reducing logging volume when monitoring an http endpoint with the Datadog Agent HTTP Check. For nginx, add something like: location / { if ($http_user_agent ~* "Datadog Agent/.*") { access_log off; } .... to your site s location statement. This should cut down on your logging volume, at the expense of not having a Continue reading Reduce logging volume