Josh Begleiter [Deactivated] [Suspended]

I would say they're not even doing the bare minimum, just paying lip-service to it (and that's obvious from the results). I would also say it's not to keep advertisers happy, it's to keep shareholders happy (like Vanguard, Morgan Stanley, Blackrock, etc.). It's a classic shareholder vs. stakeholder conversation, in which shareholders are traditionally seen as the ones to impress.

Twitter has little incentive to do anything about this problem. Did you happen to see the KaraJack thread this evening?

I'm careful to talk about the length of time that your request will run for, as you're charged by the MS in Lambda. I've found that functions that will make external calls end up costing as much as just running in EC2.

Hey Steve,

We use Elasticache (Memcached engine) for the caching in this case. Giving Lambda access to Elasticache is, thankfully, easy through IAM roles.

I should add that this article is for network security in AWS and that your internal security practices for securing machines will be formulaic. The only difference between your on-box security in traditional infrastructure and AWS is that you won't use iptables / netfilter, you'll use AWS security groups.

Update: we moved to NginX with uwsgi and this has worked really well for our low-bandwidth services.

FYI, we are currently testing NginX with uwsgi and the results are promising.

Hey Zac,

I've been following a somewhat scrumban methodology over the last few months, but didn't really think about it until now. I've used scrum to work out overall team blockers, but because my team works on various, unrelated projects much of the time, it's been used more to highlight upcoming changes for the team, documentation and code review requests, and the occasional organizational highlight. The planning and wrapups have become mostly demos and give a window into upcoming work across the team so that the rotating ad-hoc lead can dole out tickets as needed, and everything else is kanban, but tracked on two-week intervals.

We're still working on this approach, but so far it seems to fit the needs of the team. Great article!

Cheers,

Josh

I was unable to post this link a couple of days ago due to an outage on the Gentoo site, but please see here for the comparison of init systems in the Gentoo wiki: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_init_systems