AWS Tag

22 Sep 2016

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Our Tech Stack

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I was recently asked about our Tech Stack by someone looking to join the development team. I was about to point them to a previous blog post when I realised it was 4 years old so needs a update… I still consider ourselves as fundamentally…

28 May 2015

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Calculating IOPS needed in AWS RDS

In AWS, DevOps | 6 Comments

One of the most vicious and hard to detect issues in database performance deterioration is I/O. When the I/O of a database is lagging there are multiple and unpredicted issues occuring. Some of the most common are: Increased amount of slow queries Write operations get…

12 Apr 2013

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YiiSES Setup guide

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We wanted to build a marketing email application (which we are calling “MailChap”) and since we are a Yii shop I figured before we started, we should try the YiiSES module. Setup was a little tricky so I documented it here in case it’s useful…