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Seattle’s VC firms raised more new funds in 2018 than they had in 10 years
Seattle is far from a nascent startup ecosystem, but despite the presence of tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon, the city still lags behind tech hubs like Boston and New York City in terms of venture capital raised. But a new study indicates that Seattle is...
AWS Lightsail load balancers
A Lightsail load balancer distributes incoming application traffic among multiple Lightsail instances, in multiple Availability Zones. Load balancing can increase the fault tolerance of your applications and helps makes them more highly available. The load balancer...
Amazon Lightsail vs. EC2: Do updates tip the scale?
Developers can use Amazon Lightsail to spin up servers and web applications as a single package. It's less configurable than what they can create on Amazon EC2, but it's also a lot easier to deploy and estimate costs. In 2017, I wrote a detailed analysis on...
Atlassian’s not-so-magic journey scaling low latency, multi-region services on AWS
Engineering stateless, high-availability cloud services comes with juuuuuuust a few challenges. Here’s how we (eventually) slayed the dragon. Atlassian went “all in” on AWS in 2016 and they continue to be our preferred cloud provider. The extent of that migration was...
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella ranked as best CEO in US; Google’s Sundar Pichai, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos make top 10
Nadella joined the software company in 1992, holding leadership positions including Executive Vice President of Cloud and Enterprise before being named CEO in 2014. "Microsoft had thousands of employees partake in the study. (Nadella) had incredible scores from...
Understanding Baselines and Impact Levels in FedRAMP
The FedRAMP PMO fields a number of questions about impact levels and the security categorization of cloud services. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 199 provides the standards for categorizing information and information systems, which is the...