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by athrun 10y ago
Good point. It's actually generally cheaper to serve content through Cloudfront instead of S3 directly as bandwidth is less expensive with Cloudfront. However you are going to pay for Cloudfront requests in addition to S3's. In th
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by athrun 10y ago
As a best practice, use a 'normal' name for your S3 bucket and then put Cloudfront in front of your S3 website. This way you are not limited by bucket names and you also avoid any SSL validation errors. Note: you can set Cloudfron
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by athrun 10y ago
And IBM has done this for a long time with its mainframes & zSeries. You can pay a fee to switch additional processors on.
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by athrun 10y ago
I don't see why their management career would be over. Especially if they are looking at management opportunities at US companies operating in France. This is an industry I know well and certainly some of the FR country managers of US
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by athrun 10y ago
Thanks for the correction! I was in panic mode when I found that app listed in the Task Manager, I really thought my computer had been compromised and I uninstalled that app right away without actually looking at it. Glad to know it's
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by athrun 10y ago
Up until about two weeks ago, I thought people were being unreasonably whinny about the changes in Windows 10. This was before I noticed that Candy Crush Saga silently installed itself on my Windows 10 machine. Not only that but it was list
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by athrun 11y ago
I suspect API Gateway + Lambda.
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by athrun 11y ago
I'm French and while I'm generally in favor of usage of open-source by our public offices, I'm not sure moving to LibreOffice is an achievement to be proud of. In 2016, can an office suite claim to increase "productivity
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by athrun 11y ago
This is Gartner's famous "Magic Quadrant".
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by athrun 11y ago
It looks like any WSGI-compatible app would work. Note that your code itself would need to work within Lambda constraints ( http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/limits.html ).
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by athrun 11y ago
They certainly already have a SDK for Unity: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-unity
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by athrun 11y ago
You are comparing open-source Software against Services. It's as if you were saying that to compete with Amazon.com (retail) you simply have to deploy Magento or Open Cart...
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by athrun 11y ago
They are leveraging the Cross-Account access feature of the AWS Management console, which has been released early this year: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cross-account-access-in... > If you switch to op
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by athrun 11y ago
I think the main advantage here is that it's a one-binary-file webserver. Very simple to install and ideal for file sharing among coworkers or similar situations. A modern equivalent of "python -m SimpleHTTPServer".
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by athrun 11y ago
Sounds very interesting! I will be waiting for the blog post :)
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by athrun 11y ago
"you shouldn't expect your code to block on disk io" uh?! In what world are you living in? Blocking the main thread of your app on disk I/O makes for a poor user experience. Disk I/O is a big deal for a whole range
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by athrun 11y ago
I don't see how a single "skilled ops person" can deliver "lower service fees, more flexibility, improved productivity". On the other hand, Cloud Computing will, by definition, let you turn on and off services based
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by athrun 11y ago
"Once you can afford to hire competent Ops staff" Here, that's the catch. Most companies simply can't. Competing against Amazon, Microsoft and Google for talent doesn't sound like a smart strategy.
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by athrun 11y ago
Have you seen this? https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=673863 It's a mapping template for the AWS API Gateway you can use to convert both HTML form POSTed data and HTTP GET query string data to JSON.
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by athrun 11y ago
Automating large server farms is a very different job from being an Independent Software Vendor (ISV). One difference is that as an ISV you don't have a lot of control on the way the system is setup, you have to start with assumptions
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by athrun 11y ago
I disagree. You're referencing to specific _tools_ being used as a de facto standard and this is certainly true to some extent. However, the incompatibilities come from how these tools are configured: there are numerous ways of interfa
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by athrun 11y ago
Binary compatibility is certainly a major issue but I think you are downplaying the compatibility headaches introduced by the way each distributions are solving the same issues with slightly different methods. I'm thinking of: logging,
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by athrun 11y ago
What would prevent you from using this API Gateway as a proxy to your Lambda functions? It would work just fine for request/response use-cases.
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by athrun 11y ago
The blog post mentions that you can describe your API using Swagger and then import that. I suppose it means you can keep your Swagger definitions under version control.
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by athrun 11y ago
IMHO, it's best to see Empire/Deis/Dokku/etc. as a mean to an end, not the end itself. While Empire itself may be tied to AWS, your app is still a portable, 12-factor, Heroku-compatible app. You can run it elsewhere.
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Live container auto-scaling demo(force12.io)
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by athrun 11y ago
The first comment below the article points to an interview by Brian Robertson (Holocracy author) which discuss precisely this irony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOpVJIQWgqk In traditional organizations, ultimate power c
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by athrun 11y ago
I think DynamoDB has replaced SimpleDB as the default key-value store if you're running within AWS. For example, even the official Kinesis Client Library will store its state in a DynamoDB table. (link: http://docs.aws.amazo
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by athrun 11y ago
DynamoDB is quite inexpensive at low usage levels. The Free Tier gives you: "25 GB of Storage, 25 Units of Read Capacity and 25 Units of Write Capacity – Enough to handle up to 200M requests per month" DynamoDB's free tier do
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by athrun 12y ago
The bandwidth between AWS regions and Cloudfront is free so you can save a lot here as well while improving performance for your end users. And on the Cloudfront side, you can negotiate pricing to further reduce the cost. Edit with Source:

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