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Working with the Chaos Monkey

Late last year, the Netflix Tech Blog wrote about five lessons they learned moving to Amazon Web Services. AWS is, of course, the preeminent provider of so-called "cloud computing", so this can essentially be read as key advice for any website considering a move to the cloud. And

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Using Amazon S3 as an Image Hosting Service

In Reducing Your Website's Bandwidth Usage, I concluded that my best outsourced image hosting option was Amazon's S3 or Simple Storage Service. S3 is a popular choice for startups. For example, SmugMug uses S3 as their primary data storage source. There have been a few minor

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