How to Ensure Continuous Availability with Multiple AWS Accounts
If you use more than one AWS account, be aware that two different availability zones may not necessarily reside in different data centers.
If you use more than one AWS account, be aware that two different availability zones may not necessarily reside in different data centers.
Testing applications at scale is no easy task. I talk with the co-founder of one company that's trying to solve the "testing at scale" problem.
To celebrate the upcoming release of my newest O'Reilly book, I'm giving away a free signed copy of my other book Architecting for Scale.
The incident response postmortem is a critical but often overlooked step to improving the availability of your modern digital applications.
It doesn't matter if your application works most of the time; what matters is that it works on the biggest days for your business.
Availability and reliability are similar but different concepts. When building web applications, it’s important to understand the difference between the two.
The latest episode of the GOTO Book Club series features a lively conversation between me and longtime technology expert Ken Gavranovic.
When learning how to fly model airplanes as a kid, I was taught an important rule: “Always fly ‘two mistakes’ high.” The same rule applies when building web applications.
While it’s still unclear what caused Facebook’s epic meltdown today, some news outlets are speculating that “it’s always DNS” that causes issues like this. But what exactly is DNS, and how can it be the source of a major site crash?
Architecting for scale is critical for all modern applications and all modern digitally engaged organizations. But what does it really mean?