Published inSigniant EngineeringThe most interesting AWS service…in the world!Probably anyone up on their AWS Jeopardy knows that the first AWS service was SQS. But what’s the most interesting AWS service? DynamoDB…Oct 15, 20182Oct 15, 20182
Published inSigniant EngineeringConsolidating AWS Load Balancers using host-based routingWe’ve been using AWS ELBs for many years now across a variety of our cloud services. As someone from “the old times” who has configured…Oct 10, 2018Oct 10, 2018
Published inSigniant EngineeringA place for everything, everything in its placeOver the years, I’ve looked many times at Datadog and asked myself if it could be helpful to us at Signiant. Several times we’ve taken a…May 29, 2018May 29, 2018
Published inSigniant EngineeringFree Cleaning with AWS DynamoDB TTLsI’ve written before about how easy DynamoDB is to manage and store data. Lots of data. Sometimes, too much data! Given how inexpensive…Oct 25, 2017Oct 25, 2017
Published inSigniant EngineeringSet it and…Forget itDynamoDB autoscaling in actionSep 21, 2017Sep 21, 2017
Published inSigniant EngineeringDynamoDB Backup with EMRBackups. Everyone needs them, everyone hopes they never need them! We use AWS DynamoDB quite a bit at Signiant with close to 200 tables in…Jul 18, 2017Jul 18, 2017
Published inSigniant EngineeringIndexing multiple Jenkins mastersIt’s probably fair to say we are “all in” on using Jenkins as our ci server. There’s varying opinions about Jenkins around here and it’s…May 29, 2017May 29, 2017
Published inSigniant EngineeringMicro-service deployment process using Jenkins, CloudFormation, ECS and DockerLast week I wrote about how we had created a Slackbot servant to do our bidding called JARVIS. This week, I’d like to share a process we…May 15, 20171May 15, 20171
Published inSigniant EngineeringYou can’t improve what you don’t measureHow do you know if something is broken? How do you define broken? Is my service really that bad?May 11, 2017May 11, 2017
Published inSigniant EngineeringA Clone Army of the Jenkins RepublicI was talking to some folks a few weeks ago about scaling a Jenkins build system. I was asked if I ever had an experience managing hundreds…May 11, 2017May 11, 2017
