Slides for my Craft-Conf meetup talk on DSLs and F#
Learn you to tame complex APIs with F#-powered DSLs from Yan Cui
AWS
Metricano – simplifying application monitoring
On application monitoring In the Gamesys social team, our view on application monitoring is such that anything that runs in production needs to be monitored extensively all the time – every service entry point, IO operations or CPU intensive tasks. Sure, it comes at the cost of a few CPU cycles which might mean that …
Introducing, DSLs to query against Amazon CloudWatch metrics
If you have done any DevOps work on Amazon Web Services (AWS) then you should be familiar with Amazon CloudWatch, a service for tracking and viewing metrics (CPU, network in/out, etc.) about the various AWS services that you consume, or better still, custom metrics that you publish about your service. On top of that, you …
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Introducing log4net.Kinesis, a log4net appender for Amazon Kinesis
Just under three weeks ago, Amazon announced the public availability of their new Kinesis service, a service which is designed to allow real-time processing of streaming big data. As an experiment I have put together a simple, actor-based customer appender for log4net which allows you to publish your log messages into a configured Kinesis stream. …
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DynamoDB.SQL 2.0.0 is out!
Hi everyone, happy new year! I was really glad to find a couple of days to work on some of my open source projects and put together a new version of DynamoDB.SQL which brings it inline with the latest version of the .Net AWSSDK amongst other things. You can download and install it from Nuget …
Adrian Cockcroft on Dystopia-as-a-Service
Dystopia as a Service from Adrian Cockcroft And finally, a good summation of the talk here.
Amazon ELB – Some caveats around health check pings
We recently found out about an interesting, undocumented behaviour of Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service – that health check pings are performed by each and every instance running your ELB service at every health check interval. Intro to ELB But first, let me fill in some background information for readers who are not familiar …
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S3 – Masterclass Webinar slides
I stumbled across a set of slides with a rather comprehensive overview of the different aspects of S3, worthwhile reading for anyone who works with Amazon S3 regularly. Enjoy! Masterclass Webinar: Amazon S3 from Amazon Web Services
DynamoDB.SQL 1.2.1 – now supports Local Secondary Index
A couple of weeks earlier, Amazon announced support for Local Secondary Indexes (LSI) for DynamoDB. You can now perform fast, efficient queries against DynamoDB tables using attributes that are not part of the existing Hash and Range key model without resorting to the use of scans. As a result to the new feature the DynamoDB …
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DynamoDB.SQL – version 1.1.0 released
Just a quick note to say that another minor update to DynamoDB.SQL has been release, you can view the release notes here. The latest update adds support for a TSQL style WITH keyword for specifying optional parameters for tweaking the query/scan operation. For queries, you can specify the NoConsistentRead and PageSize options to use …