Tag: Technical Use Cases

Tito is a web application for selling tickets online that focuses strongly on user experience for both event organizers and their attendees. The core of a great user experience is trust. For a web application, that starts with reliability. In this blog post, the CTO explains how they’ve built a zero-downtime infrastructure to maximize reliability and customer trust.

Why does AWS have so many data storage options? Which one is right for me? These are commonly asked customer questions. In this three-part blog series, I will attempt to provide some clarity. In the first part, I discussed the basics of high availability and how redundancy is a common way of achieving it. I also briefly mentioned that bringing redundancy to the data tier introduces new challenges. In this second part of the blog series, I discuss some of those challenges and common tradeoffs that you need to take into consideration while overcoming them.

In the previous blog post of this two-part series, “Part 1 — Introduction to Blue/Green Deployment on AWS,” we covered the benefits of blue…

If you’ve ever been involved in a production system upgrade that went sideways, then you know that there are better things to be doing on a…

AWS Startup Spotlight

I will use a simple web application stack to discuss high availability, how it is calculated and how it can be practically achieved.

AWS Startup Spotlight

Achieve great solutions by bringing together a collection of “small things” within the Internet of Things (IoT) domain.

As Kloudless has grown to support developers from around the world, a big challenge is to ensure that a developer located thousands of miles away is able to use the API without a drastic drop-off in performance. Here’s how they did it leveraging AWS services like Amazon Route 53.

Implementing a Distributed Solution for a Distributed Problem