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How to build effective Async APIs by Terry Crowley
This is a summary of posts by Terry Crowley, former head of Office, on how to build async APIs that work well: • Async APIs: Synchronous APIs take a…
Aug 26, 2022
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How to Build Responsive Touch Interfaces by Terry Crowley
This is a summary of Rethinking MVC in Excel, Word and PowerPoint after 25 Years by Terry Crowley, who led Office for a decade. Touch interface require…
Aug 14, 2022
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Whether and How To Load Test
Why to load test When you load test at a higher traffic level than you have, you get visibility into what’s coming down the road for your company. You…
Dec 5, 2021
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Minimum Viable Engineering Team
Startups focus on building an MVP, a minimal set of features to bring a certain level of business success, which can be used to generate further…
Sep 18, 2021
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Choosing Between RDS Multi-AZ and Read Replica
Amazon RDS offers a choice between two types of replicated databases: Multi-AZ and read replicas. Which should you use? First, depending on your needs…
Sep 8, 2021
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EC2 DevOps Tips
Install the CloudWatch agent in your VMs to get critical information like available memory. Host your app servers in the same availability zone as your…
Aug 26, 2021
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A Guide to EC2 Autoscaling
You should use autoscaling to … increase scalability of your system as customers scale up their traffic over time. … reduce MTTR when there’s a sudden…
Aug 26, 2021
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Monitoring Is Still Too Complex and Primitive
When I worked as an SRE in 2014, the tooling was primitive. Even at Google, which was leading the industry. To update an on-call rotation, we had to do…
Aug 16, 2021
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RDS DevOps Guide
Use managed services like RDS to reduce overhead compared to running your own database. Pick one database, database version and configuration and…
Aug 12, 2021
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Treat Customers With a Lot of Traffic as Leading Indicators
In a B2B startup, you’ll have a few customers who send a lot more traffic than others. For example, a startup I know works in the field of incident…
Aug 9, 2021
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Levels of Abstraction With Cloud Servers
I recently realised that backend-as-a-service is the next level of abstraction up in hosting servers. What does that mean? Before the advent of the…
Dec 26, 2016
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