AWS

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…

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

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…

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…