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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Apr 2023
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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.
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Nov 2021
What Model Airplanes Teach Us About Avoiding Application Failures
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.
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Oct 2021
What Is DNS?
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?
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Aug 2021
8 Things You Don’t Know About Architecting Your Business Infrastructure for Scale
Architecting for scale is critical for all modern applications and all modern digitally engaged organizations. But what does it really mean?