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hullsean

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I'm an Amazon Solutions Architect, advisor, author & speaker. I build & automate infrastructure for startups to scale. I blog weekly & publish a monthly newsletter on innovation.

www.iheavy.com/blog/

  1. Will microservices just die already? (iheavy.com)
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  2. How to hire a developer that doesn't suck (iheavy.com)
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  3. 30 questions for a serverless fanboy (iheavy.com)
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  4. Is Redshift outpacing Hadoop as the warehouse for startups? (iheavy.com)
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  5. Is AWS enabling Angellist to boil the VC business? (iheavy.com)
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  6. Is Amazon too big to fail (iheavy.com)
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  7. 5 Reasons Redshift is the nuke of big data (iheavy.com)
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  8. Did MySQL and Mongo have a beautiful baby named Aurora? (iheavy.com)
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  9. What Can NYFW Teach Chad Dickerson about Net Neutrality (iheavy.com)
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  10. I found a nifty iphone trick to increase newsletter signups (iheavy.com)

    The iphone's spellcheck can serve a dual purpose. Shortcuts are invaluable

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  11. 5 Things I Learned About Trust and Advising Clients (iheavy.com)

    You'd be surprised to learn sometimes advising clients is not about solving their problems.

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  12. Why I can't raise the bar at every firm (iheavy.com)

    Why would I highlight cases where I'm not the best resource for the job?

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  13. Why AWS Summit is Free While Oracle World Costs $2650 (iheavy.com)

    The sometimes strange economics of two billion dollar companies. Raise prices or lower them? Who wins?

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  14. Why Scalability is Big Business (iheavy.com)

    Lean startups struggle to scale as their customer base grows quickly. The reasons are more predictable than you might think

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  15. Are SQL Databases Dead? (iheavy.com)

    ORM usage with SQL databases is growing. Meanwhile NoSQL dbs are more and more popular. Does it spell the death of the old-school relational database?

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  16. 5 Things I like about Markus Winand's book SQL Performance Explained (iheavy.com)

    You think db independent code is great. But perusing a superb book on four popular database platforms will dispel the myth & educate you on tuning them

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  17. Why healthcare.gov desperately needs techops (iheavy.com)

    The capacity planning & load testing on healthcare.gov were severely lacking. From caching, to autoscaling, they dropped the ball.

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  18. Why Oracle won't kill MySQL (iheavy.com)

    Some worry Larry is out to smother MySQL with a slow death. But the truth is rather stranger...

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  19. Lulzsec, anonymous and the sorry state of Internet security (iheavy.com)

    A little review of Parmy Olsen's awesome tale of famous hackers, and vulnerable world online.

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  20. Fat fingers took down github (iheavy.com)

    Operator error overwrites hundreds of Jenkins plugin repos on github. Force-push Fail!

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  21. Twitter's IPO makes giant admission on scalability fears (iheavy.com)

    I was surprised digging through the Twitter IPO. Their load balancing between datacenters leaves a lot of problems open.

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  22. Will Dynamodb work for my web app (iheavy.com)

    Eventually consistent. Perfect for some, hurdle for others. How do I decide?

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  23. Why startups need techops (iheavy.com)

    Devs sometimes think ops are unnecessary. Meanwhile ops think Devs are careless. Why can't we all just get along?

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  24. Why the Twitter IPO mentions scalability (iheavy.com)

    What is the risk of techops to your new IPO? Surprisingly quite a lot.

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  25. Why the Twitter IPO mentions scalability (iheavy.com)

    Twitter's IPO mentions they're not balancing traffic evenly between datacenters. Are they alone? Why scalability & HA are hard to do perfectly.

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