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AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started

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Re: AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started

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Post by krallin »

Lots of very useful tips there!

There's one that I think could be improved on a little:

    Uploads should go direct to S3 (don't store on local filesystem and have another process move to S3 for example).
You could even use a temporary URL[0,1] and have the user upload directly to S3!

[0]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10044151/how-to-generate-... [1]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/PresignedUrlU...

Re: AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started

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Post by toomuchtodo »

krallin wrote: post #4

Lots of very useful tips there! There's one that I think could be improved on a little: Uploads should go direct to S3 (don't store on local filesystem and have another process move to S3 for example). You could even use a temporary URL[0,1] and have the user upload directly to S3! [0]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10044151/how-to-generate-... [1]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/PresignedUrlU...

I've always seen issues pushing objects directly to S3 from a browser using CORS. YMMV.

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Post by jaibot »

krallin wrote: post #4

Lots of very useful tips there! There's one that I think could be improved on a little: Uploads should go direct to S3 (don't store on local filesystem and have another process move to S3 for example). You could even use a temporary URL[0,1] and have the user upload directly to S3! [0]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10044151/how-to-generate-... [1]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/PresignedUrlU...

I have a desktop client that requests one-time upload URLs from my server via an API. Later they get downloaded and processed somewhere else - never actually touching my web server.

Re: AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started

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Post by drob »

Along these lines, I recommend installing New Relic server monitoring on all your EC2 instances.

The server-level monitoring is free, and it's super simple to install. (The code we use to roll it out via ansible: https://gist.github.com/drob/8790246)

You get 24 hours of historical data and a nice webUI. Totally worth the effort.

Re: AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started

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Post by paulgb »

richadams wrote: post #3
lfuller wrote: post #2

Your body tag is set to "overflow: hidden;". I wasn't able to scroll until I tweaked it manually in the inspector.

Oops, sorry about that. Should be fixed now.

Also, if you change the first line of http://wblinks.com/css/style.css

to

    @import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Sans:400,700);
you should notice an improvement in the boldface font rendering.

Great article, btw.

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