Retrospective on infrastructure decisions after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup ~comp Article 3607 words, published Feb 1 2024 10 votes
How AWS request signatures version 4 and 4a work ~comp security Article 1500 words, published Sep 9 2021 3 votes
AWS announces they will create and maintain an Apache-licensed fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana ~comp open source Article 992 words 20 votes
Twilio's TaskRouter JavaScript SDK was in a world-writeable S3 bucket, and had what appears to be a precursor to a payment-card skimmer inserted for about 12 hours ~comp security Article 552 words 10 votes
Millions of tiny databases - the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage: the Physalia database that stores configuration information ~comp Article 2007 words 4 votes
Locking down the EC2 Instance Metadata Service: Announcing imds-filterd ~comp security Article 969 words 2 votes
In 2019, multiple open source companies have changed course and their licenses to try to protect their businesses—is it the right move? ~comp open source foss Article 1596 words 10 votes
Announcing PartiQL: an SQL-compatible, open source query language intended to work with many different types of data stores ~comp Article 2556 words 5 votes
Amazon Has Gone From Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor, Say Open Source Developers ~comp open source Article 3442 words 5 votes