There are a lot of CDN solutions nowadays for static content hosting. But what if your customers are distributed around the world and you need maximum performance for all of them? We have tested a few multi-regional architectures on AWS and pleased to share with you a…
Full page caching is a common practice to deal with high traffic. Although it has clear advantages, many companies still choose not to do caching. In this article, Maksym Moskvychev explains best practices for configuring full page caching and shows pros and cons of using…
According to AWS Well Architectured Framework, one of the security principles is to keep people away from data. The more you interact with sensitive information - the more the probability of human error. And the impact of real or even potential data misuse is very high, for example, Twitter case in 2016.
For many years setting up environment for Selenium tests was a tricky task for DevOps engineers. With appearence of Docker it became a bit easier, but still, you had to run a couple containers and keep them alive. Since 2017 @smithclay made possible to run Webdriver tests inside AWS…
When AWS Global Accelerator was announced in November 2018 many engineers were asking what does it actually bring? The key features of Global Accelerator is using AWS backbone network and latency based region selection with failover. While it might sound awesome, similar features were available in other AWS…