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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:
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Kartick Vaddadi
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.
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Kartick Vaddadi
Whether and How To Load Test
Why to load test
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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…
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Kartick Vaddadi
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?
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EC2 DevOps Tips
Install the CloudWatch agent in your VMs to get critical information like available memory.
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A Guide to EC2 Autoscaling
You should use autoscaling to
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Monitoring Is Still Too Complex and Primitive
When I worked as an SRE in 2014, the tooling was primitive.
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RDS DevOps Guide
Use managed services like RDS to reduce overhead compared to running your own database.
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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.
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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.
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