Improve Software Application Availability in 5 Steps
Keeping applications up and running is essential to successfully running a modern business. Follow these key steps to reduce your risk of downtime and keep customers happy.
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Aug 2023
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Jul 2023
Are You Using the Right Analytics to Keep Your Applications Running Smoothly?
Aligning the right metrics to the right use case allows for timelier reporting and reduces the risk your application could fail.
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Jun 2023
How Data Sharding Can Affect Your Ability to Scale
The scaling decisions you make early on can have long-lasting consequences for your SaaS business. These tips will ensure that data sharding doesn’t hinder the future scalability of your applications.
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Apr 2023
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.
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Jan 2023
Testing at Scale with Nate Lee of Speedscale [podcast]
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.
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Dec 2022
Win a Signed Copy of My Book ‘Architecting for Scale’
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.
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Nov 2022
Learning from Your Incident Response to Improve Availability
The incident response postmortem is a critical but often overlooked step to improving the availability of your modern digital applications.
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Jul 2022
The Dynamic Cloud Helps Your Website Work When Customers Need It Most
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.
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Mar 2022
Availability vs. Reliability: What’s the Difference?
Availability and reliability are similar but different concepts. When building web applications, it’s important to understand the difference between the two.
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Jan 2022
Dive into ‘Architecting for Scale’ in the Latest GOTO Book Club Podcast
The latest episode of the GOTO Book Club series features a lively conversation between me and longtime technology expert Ken Gavranovic.