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Well, it depends on the application. Most people think about scaling far too early, and the same applies to configuration management. I am a fan of shortcuts, early and often... wo…

The baked AMI comes up and pulls, so it doesn't need to be baked each time. If you take the route you just mentioned, I highly recommend using Netflix's Asgard ( https://github.com…

Huge fan of salt stack, and I may push Adrian in that direction. The changes we made here were minimal in the way he deploys, and with so many architecture changes behind the scene…

I'd certainly be down. I love talking about this entire arena, specifically where it falls on its face.

I apparently need to get back to that book.

Really loved working on this with you, and I'm excited to see what you come up with now that you have a much better understanding of AWS. Congrats on the re-launch!

This is 100% correct. We also generated static snapshots of the origin and mirrored to S3. In the instance of something going awry with our primary origin servers, we could fail ba…

The subtlety you are referring to in #2 is that we moved from puppet for deployments to puppet to configure template nodes. We baked AMIs from those template nodes and deployed tho…

A) That's a bit nuanced and depends on the application you are referring to (there are ~200 represented here), but if you had the scripts and the repos and built from a vanilla AMI…

That part is a a little more nebulous. When deploying the entire full stack of all applications is automated, rolling a new environment is very simple. So, for instance, if I wante…

We used Akamai, Cloudfront, and Level3 in various combinations.

Adjusted. Better?

You are 100% correct. I honestly think the problem is the speed at which we are throwing this together right now. This is an exercise for us in rapid implementation. The team that …

Yes, we could have. However time is of the essence here, and we took all of the recommendations you see directly from the Chicago Police Department. They recommended a direct cash …

Sorry dudes, we were told by the police that we cannot release any information as to _why_ we want to track these guys down. They said that in situations in the past, people have b…