Top Stories published by theburningmonk.com in 2013

Customizing document styles with FSharp.Markdown.Pdf

Following on from my last post on formatting a Markdown document into PDF using FSharp.Markdown.Pdf, if you don’t like the default styling (which I tried to mimic style Github formats Markdown documents with) you can set your own styling…


Making Amazon SimpleWorkflow simpler to work with

Amazon SimpleWorkflow (abbreviated to SWF from here on) is a workflow service provided by Amazon which allows you to model business processes as workflows using a task based programming model. The service provides reliable task dispatch and…


Amazon ELB — Some caveats around health check pings

We recently found out about an interesting, undocumented behaviour of Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service — that health check pings are performed by each and every instance running your ELB service at every health check interval.


DynamoDB.SQL 1.2.1 — now supports Local Secondary Index

A couple of weeks earlier, Amazon announced support for Local Secondary Indexes (LSI) for DynamoDB. You can now perform fast, efficient queries against DynamoDB tables using attributes that are not part of the existing Hash and Range

These were the top 10 stories published by theburningmonk.com in 2013. You can also dive into monthly archives for 2013 by using the calendar at the top of this page.