5 Steps to Bring Your Enterprise Application into the Modern World
A quick guide to building, managing, monitoring, and maintaining state-of-the-art web applications.
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May 2023
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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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Aug 2022
8 Steps to Higher-Quality DNS Systems [podcast]
DNS is essential to operating a modern digital businesses, but a failure in your DNS system can bring your entire business to a sudden halt.
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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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Feb 2022
Your Business Has a Disaster Recovery Plan—But Have You Actually Tested It?
The most effective way to determine if your company's disaster recovery plan will work is to test it in a production-level environment.
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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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Nov 2021
6 Steps to Prepare Your E-Commerce Business for the Holidays
Is your e-commerce website ready for the rush of seasonal traffic? Here are six things all e-commerce businesses should do right now to ensure their sites can scale to meet the demand.
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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?