Remind EngineeringBuilding Infrastructure in ParallelIn the early days of stacker at Remind, the number of stacks that we were managing was just a handful. CloudFormation stacks were updated…Mar 5, 2018Mar 5, 2018
Remind EngineeringA Probabilistic Approach to Counting Message DeliveriesHere is a scenario that happens at Remind every day: a teacher sends a class announcement, which goes out to every class participant. There…Feb 14, 2018Feb 14, 2018
Remind EngineeringImproving Redshift Performance with IntermixHere at Remind, Amazon Redshift is a centerpiece of our data infrastructure. Event data is continuously ingested into Redshift. ETL…Feb 12, 2018Feb 12, 2018
Remind EngineeringMigrate the Empire to C5Migrate the Empire to C5 — or why it took me a month to move from C4 to C5 AWS instances.Jan 29, 20182Jan 29, 20182
Remind EngineeringOperations Infrastructure Month in Review #4The Remind OpsEng team has “Open Sourced” our monthly status reports. This post briefly describes some of the bigger tasks and projects we…Nov 7, 20171Nov 7, 20171
Remind EngineeringOperations Infrastructure Month in Review #3The Remind OpsEng team has “Open Sourced” our monthly status reports. This post briefly describes some of the bigger tasks and projects we…Oct 2, 20171Oct 2, 20171
Remind EngineeringWhy Qualitative Research Matters for EngineersThis article has to do with understanding user research from an engineering perspective. Whether you’re curious about the different types…Sep 19, 2017Sep 19, 2017
Remind EngineeringDocker Image DigestsWhen you download something from the internet, a common method for determining both integrity and authenticity of an object is to generate…Sep 18, 2017Sep 18, 2017
Remind EngineeringDebugging IAM permissions with CloudTrailAn automated AWS service failing due to a missing IAM permission can have surprising causes. Examining the CloudTrail log the error leaves…Sep 13, 2017Sep 13, 2017
Remind EngineeringOperations Infrastructure Month in Review #2The Remind OpsEng team has “Open Sourced” our monthly status reports. This post briefly describes some of the bigger tasks and projects we…Aug 30, 2017Aug 30, 2017
