emcooke

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The Visible Effects and Hidden Sources of Internet Latency(connectionmanagement.org)
3 points by emcooke 13y ago|0 comments
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Webhooks for your Credit Cards(cardspring.com)
6 points by emcooke 15y ago|0 comments
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Public Domain WPA Poster Art hosted by the Library of Congress(loc.gov)
1 points by emcooke 15y ago|0 comments
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by emcooke 15y ago
Twilio has a service-oriented architecture internally. We leverage a variety of application stacks for different services.
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by emcooke 15y ago
Several people have asked for additional details. We just posted a quick follow-on: [UPDATE] A central theme of the recent AWS issues has been the Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service. We use EBS at Twilio but only for non-critical
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by emcooke 15y ago
Our main infrastructure is deployed on AWS but we have capacity at several cloud providers for load-balancing, redundancy, etc.
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by emcooke 15y ago
Yup, good idea. We set up an ngnix proxy to cache the page while the blog hosting provider fixes their server.
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by emcooke 15y ago
Ironically, this highlights one of the main issues we discuss in the post! The Twilio Engineering blog is hosted off an external Wordpress site with a single IP that's forwarded from ngnix load balancer pool. Since the load balancers assum
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by emcooke 15y ago
We just enabled caching on the ngnix proxy to the external site hosting our Wordpress install for the engineering blog. Hopefully that should help performance. -Evan Twilio.com
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by emcooke 16y ago
Hi Anthony, Twilio service status available via our public status page http://status.twilio.com/ We communicated degraded international SMS service to customers on August 16. You bring up a good point that the information might not be rea
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by emcooke 16y ago
For those wondering about the technical aspects of this decision take a look at this thread: http://getsatisfaction.com/twilio/topics/international_sms-1... When we launched the Twilio SMS Beta we tried hard to support sending SMS message
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by emcooke 16y ago
In a 100% ideal scenario an organization would only need developers as every possible failure/problem would be covered and handled by automation. Obviously the real world is different. New code is deployed that has bugs, there are unpredic
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by emcooke 16y ago
Can't someone whose role embodies a certain culture and philosophy not have a title that fits that goal? How would you define DevOps?
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by emcooke 16y ago
Thanks for the pointer to OpSec term. DevOpsSec... I sense a tshirt in the making?
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DevOps Engineering: Who does your automation?
40 points by emcooke 16y ago|20 comments
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by emcooke 16y ago
Correct. Stashboard is simply a lightweight frontend display for your API/service status. It has a GUI and REST API that allow you to update status information. Using the API, one could wire Stashboard into Nagios or any other alerting s
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by emcooke 17y ago
You might check out http://venmo.com/ They have a dead simple SMS payments platform. -evan (@twilio)
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by emcooke 17y ago
We provided an brief overview of how Twilio uses AWS here http://www.slideshare.net/twilio/twilio-voice-applications-w...
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by emcooke 17y ago
Props to Dave. All the flowery language, pictures, and hyperbole generate great discussion and traffic. Dave is one of the most savvy investors and marketers around. When we were first pitching Twilio no one seemed to understand "marketin
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NPR Finder By Phone: NPR API + Twilio + Google App Engine(skeevisarts.com)
6 points by emcooke 17y ago|0 comments
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by emcooke 17y ago
maybe i am too stupid but bookmarks are just too complicated for me... they are always on the wrong computer, organizing them is a pain, and i just don't trust them to a 3rd party to keep them. google always seems easier :)
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by emcooke 17y ago
because i found myself typing "hacker news" into google instead of typing all 20 characters into the url bar.
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Hackernewz.com [forwards to] News.YCombinator.com(hackernewz.com)
4 points by emcooke 17y ago|11 comments