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I would look into AWS Lambda. Lambda host backend functions written in javascript, python or java. You can then use the AWS javascript sdk in your frontend code to invoke these lam…

I believe its not an 80% project fail rate, but rather 80-85% of the programmers working this way quit.

We use Teletraan heavily. Currently we have about 500 deploys per day, including the auto deploys. Slightly off topic, I'm a big fan of continuous deployments, but 500 deployments …

Github was hosted at rackspace, here is there blogpost about it https://github.com/blog/493-github-is-moving-to-rackspace From their blog posted last month: As we started transitio…

I recently read a blog post from Github about them operating their own datacenter http://githubengineering.com/githubs-metal-cloud/ Im not positive, but it sounds like a fairly rec…

You were probably already "gone" once HR contacted you in June. HR's job is to protect the company, at no point were they concerned with improving your work relationship with the o…

I do a good bit of weight lifting, typically 4 or 5 times a week. I find it a great way to disconnect and focus on something very simple / straightforward for an hour. Its also a g…

I think you're over thinking things. Tech hiring is so random that you could have the most impressive list of projects on github, but if you get asked a single data structure quest…

I bet if she scanned the work from office people she would also find people who just don't work.

Location: New York, NY Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JavaScript, node.js, iOS, Swift, Objective-C, RESTful apis, angularjs, ansible, docker, extensive AWS exper…

I've been using DynamoDB since it was released. In over 3 and 1/2 years of use, this is the first time I've experienced DynamoDB being down.

Other than ec2, what AWS services were you using and how did you migrate those? At minimum, I'd guess you were using elb for load balancing, sqs for queues and elastic cache for re…

When I setup an AWS account for pet projects the very first thing I do is create a billing alarm that alerts me the second my bill goes above $0. This way if something is accidenta…

Amazon also places limits on all of its services. I would think one of the reasons for these default limits is to help with cases of abuse. You can learn more about them at http://…

Didn't mean to imply no need for Hologram or not to keep dev as close as possible to production. However, I do think you should be doing this before looking into a solution like ho…

For working with AWS apis, securing access keys, and granting least privilege, the first step to take is to make completely separate AWS accounts per environment. Make a Bigco-Prod…

I've only briefly read over the documentation, but this service seems to not follow deployment best practices that aws and others such as netflix have been talking about for years.…

I have a very similar setup as the one mentioned in the article where we create a full baked ami, then create a new autoscaling group which attaches itself with a load balancer. Th…

I've been using DynamoDB since it was released. I wrote a nodejs driver[1] and a nodejs data mapper for it[2], so I have a decent bit of experience with it. Browsing the DocumentDB…

I recently created a login flow for a RESTful API. The solution I went with was instead of thinking of it as a high level activity such as login, what I was really doing was creati…

I bake ami using both packer and ansible and then do blue/green deployments using asgard from netflix. Asgard streamlines the whole process of creating a new autoscaling group, ram…

About 50% were through my personal network, the rest came from various online sources. Angellist worked really well for me, I highly recommend trying them if you're looking for ear…

I can only speak for NYC, but its very hot. A couple of months ago my startup failed and I was looking for a job. I was only interested in early stage startups and wanted to work o…

SEEKING WORK - NYC / REMOTE Fullstack developer with 10 years of experience. Worked with many startups, having launched products both on the web and mobile (ios). Specialties: High…