Redis is a popular in-memory data structure store that can be used as a datastore, cache and message broker. There are lots of posts about companies successfully using Redis as an integral part of their service. For example, this post gives a good overview of…

In this post we will share our experiences using AWS Code Deploy and AWS Auto Scaling and suggest something that might be better.

Why we moved to Go (Golang)…

In this post we will discuss why we made the decision to adopt Go (aka golang) as the standard programming…

DynamoDB has a lot of desirable traits. It is a NoSQL store with the usual horizontally scalable attributes. You provision and pay for the capacity that your use case demands. You can optimize your capacity dollars through the judicious use of the less expensive…

Previously we discussed auto scaling within AWS and programming language selection for a re-platforming of the Yik Yak backend. These were precursors to discussions of moving from platform services being deployed on individual EC2 instances and instead being deployed…

The goal of this blog series is to share some of the lessons learned as we evolved Yik Yak from early-stage startup code running in Amazon Web Services to an eventual incremental rewrite, re-architecture, and live-migration to Google Cloud Platform. By sharing our journey…