IaaS

While we would all like to think everything we do is perfect, mistakes happen from time to time. People can select the wrong versions for deployment by mistake, bugs in the infrastructure we build can result in incorrect artefacts being deployed, or even breakdowns in...

11 November, 2024 /

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Cloudflare Dev Workshop 2020In mid-February, I had the privilege to attend the first Melbourne Cloudflare dev event. This was just one of a series of sessions they ran across the country to reach out to developers and help educate people around their thinking and the...

04 March, 2020 /

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No food reviews here I'm afraid

This year I was incredibly lucky to score a coveted ticket to YOW! in beautiful Melbourne. I was also asked to be a track host for a couple of sessions, so that was quite an honour too. This post is a whirlwind wrap-up of the conference, and only includes my favourite talks from the two day event. If you're hoping to hear detailed reviews on how the coffee/food/WiFi/venue was, then you'll be greatly disappointed (it was all great BTW).
01 December, 2017 /

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Databases are the backbone of most modern web applications and their performance plays a major role in user experience. Faster response times - even by a fraction of a second - can be the major deciding factor for most users to choose one option over another. Therefore, it is important to take response rate into consideration whilst designing your databases in order to provide the best possible performance. In this article, I’m going to discuss how to optimise DynamoDB database performance by using partitions.
27 June, 2016 /

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