AWS Activate Startup Blog
medium.com/aws-activate-startup-blog · Company blog · on HN since 2014
AWS's startup program blog on Medium offers practical guidance on cloud hiring, Docker, API security, high availability, and fundraising.
What HN saysHN commenters call the series helpful and link it for DevOps hiring questions, running Docker on ECS, and the case against Lambda for sandboxing.
30HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Simple Beer Service4 people · 6 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 2Hiring a Cloud Engineer? Questions to Ask and What You Should Hear3 people · 15 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 3Sandboxing Code in the Era of Containers2 people · 25 points · first shared 2015 · 3 comments on HN
- 4High Availability for Mere Mortals2 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 5AWS Startup Collection2 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 6Running Services Using Docker and Amazon EC2 Container Service2 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 7Adventure Capital: Fundraising Can Be Fun Again1 people · 12 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 8Bitmovin (YC S15): Improving Video Quality on the Web1 people · 12 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
- 9The Case for Deployment Pipelines1 people · 8 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 10API Security for Modern Web Apps1 people · 6 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 11Optimizing Latency and Bandwidth for AWS Traffic1 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 12Adapting Deep Learning to Medicine with Behold.ai1 people · 4 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 13Cluster Architectures Using Docker and ECS1 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 14Using Containers to Build a Microservices Architecture1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 15Triggering Lambda Functions via Text Message1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
mathieum · 2017-08-29
Here's a good article about hiring a DevOps:
https://medium.com/aws-activate-startup-blog/hiring-a-cloud-engineer-q…
Kaedon · 2016-09-21
Looks like this is a little closer to what you're looking for I think: https://medium.com/aws-activate-startup-blog/running-services-using-do…
ninjay · 2015-12-26
I found this series very helpful: https://medium.com/aws-activate-startup-blog
logvol · 2015-10-30
https://webtask.io/
Why the don't use Lambda: https://medium.com/aws-activate-startup-blog/sandboxing-code-in-the-er…
... hile we were at it, AWS announced AWS Lambda, which looked like a potential remedy to our challenge. Upon further investigation, however, it became clear AWS Lambda is centered on an asynchronous programming model that did not quite meet our needs. The custom logic we run in Auth0 is an RPC logic: it accepts inputs and must return outputs at low latency. Given the asynchronous model of AWS Lambda, implementing such logic would require polling for the results of the computation, which would adversely affect latency...