These are the words that I had to mutter quite a few times in my career, at the dissatisfaction of how pagination had been implemented on several projects. Still, that dissatisfaction is nothing compared to how I feel when I occasionally had to ask “why is this API not paginated..?” So, taking a break from my …
TL;DR – AWS announced the long awaited auto scaling capability for DynamoDB, but we found it takes too long to scale up and doesn’t scale up aggressively enough as it’s held back by using consumed capacity as scaling metric rather than actual request count. Here at Space Ape Games we developed an in-house tech to auto scale DynamoDB …
The problems with DynamoDB Auto Scaling and how it might be improved Read More »
AWS announced general availability of AWS Lambda support for AWS X-Ray back in May. It’s taken me a while to try it out, and whilst I see plenty of values I think its current limitations significantly restricts its usefulness in a complex system. I found Lambda-specific documentations to be fragmented and I had to rely …
aws x-ray and lambda : the good, the bad and the ugly Read More »
update Jan 26, 2020: since this article was already written, the problem of throughput dilution has been resolved by DynamoDB’s adaptive capacity feature which is applied in real-time. TL;DR – The no. of partitions in a DynamoDB table goes up in response to increased load or storage size, but it never come back down, ever. DynamoDB …
Beware of dilution of DynamoDB throughput due to excessive scaling Read More »
An interesting requirement came up at work this week where we discussed potentially having to run our own URL Shortener because the Universal Links mechanism (in iOS 9 and above) requires a JSON manifest at https://domain.com/apple-app-site-association Since the OS doesn’t follow redirects this manifest has to be hosted on the URL shortener’s root domain. Owing to a limitation on AppsFlyer it’s …
AWS Lambda – build yourself a URL shortener in 2 hours Read More »
part 1: overview <- you’re here part 2: testing and CI/CD part 3: ops part 4: building a scalable notification system part 5: building a better recommendation system Since Yubl’s closure quite a few people have asked about the serverless architecture we ended up with and some of the things we have learnt along the …
Yubl’s road to Serverless architecture – overview Read More »
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Here’s the recorded live stream of the F# DSLs session I did at the F# |> Bristol user group last night. (apologies for the first few mins where I forgot to share my screen to the Hangout…) and here’s the slides to go with the talk: Tame cloud complexity with F#-powered DSLs from Yan Cui
Hi, thanks to everyone who turned up to my talk at LambdaDays this afternoon, here are the slides. Tame cloud complexity with F#-powered DSLs from Yan Cui You can find the source code for the projects I discussed below: DynamoDB.SQL : source code & nuget package SimpleWorkflow.Extensions : source code & nuget package CloudWatch.Selector : …
Hi, just a quick update on two of my libraries aimed at making AWS easier to work with from .Net. DynamoDB.SQL DynamoDB.SQL is a SQL-like external DSL for querying & scanning data in Amazon DynamoDB. Version 3.0.0 has been released, which moves away from the monolithic .Net AWSSDK (v2.x.x), and onto the DynamoDB specific package. You can …
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