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I attend a course at Coursera by Dan Ariely on Behavior Economics, and he talks about the effect of signing an honor code. Interestingly, his experiments showed that people stopped…

I bought a new reserved instance yesterday, and got the email from Amazon about this today. Good thing that "New Reserved Instance prices will only apply to Reserved Instances purc…

I see the same thing. Pingdom reports higher response-time, but no downtime (meaning no alert). Also no alerts from AWS Cloudwatch. I first became aware of the issue when internal …

Not related to their design, but Varnish (the HTTP accelerator) was initially created by VG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_(software)#History

Riot on ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/ ) is not from Silicon Valley, but a fascinating story about the Finish dot-com company Riot-E. "The company was such a spectacular fa…

My multi-AZ RDS also failed over without a problem. The site was down for 5 minutes though, perhaps due to ELB problems.

This might be one of the best reasons to have native (mobile) clients. As a web-developer I like the model of writing one web-application to fit all clients, and being able to link…

I use Pingdom, but wish they could monitor more frequently for exactly the reasons you mention. In theory my site can be unavailable for several seconds each minute, without showin…

I got this on one of my domains too, and it was because of the private whois information (Domains By Proxy). After I removed that, it worked just fine.

I've been thinking of moving away from GoDaddy for a long time, and this was the last drop. It is crazy how they design the webpages to make it as hard as possible to cancel anythi…

11.900, Norwegian. Worked in a multi-nation company where I spoke/wrote English daily for several years, and read books in English regularly. I guess this explains why I have to us…

I don't have the links now, but both Google and Amazon have concluded that faster page loads result in more sales/conversions. If you want to render the whole page in the browser i…

This might not be a problem on Appstore, but in general I would think a lot of logging would impact the server performance?

When I posted this, the status history showed a big green OK-symbol for April 23... Now it's updated to show the red error-symbol, so this posting make no sense.

I have been wondering about the same thing. Sadly, the article says: > but returning multiple A records diminishes any possibility of deterministic site selection.