Lee Doughty

Exploring AWS Aurora Serverless v2 for cheap WordPress usage

Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Summary: I wanted to know if the new Aurora Serverless V2 could be used for a cheap wordpress instance, I was disappointed.

AWS HTTP API Gateway CloudFormation Setup

Sun, 26 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Summary: This article goes over AWS HTTP API Gateway (which is still in beta) for AWS Lambda targets. There’s currently few examples, and a bug in a basic configuration that prevents the chain of services from working

Comparing AWS API Gateway to Load Balancer Proxy costs

Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Summary: Is API Gateway merely a front end to your Lambda, with no additional configurations? Do you run multiple APIs? Do you see >5 million requests/month in traffic? Perhaps you should switch to an Application Load Balancer Proxy. Here are some considerations.

Parallel API Gateway Lambda Execution

Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Summary: AWS Lambda through API Gateway binds requests to lambdas in 1:1, which means cold starts are likely if you receive more parallel requests than you have lambdas available to de-thaw. For more information, read below…

About This Site

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This site was built because I primarily wanted to share some of my findings exploring some deep concepts of cloud computing with the world. I figured, if I found something frustrating, spent days researching the issue, and then found a solution… Perhaps I can spare the next engineer the pain. The single largest reason I never made a site was security – I don’t want to maintain this page on a daily, weekly, or even a monthly basis.

Sparsification of AWS EBS Snapshot for Faster Initialization

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

In short: This article will help you take an existing snapshot and reduce the initialization time of dirty snapshots (snapshots that contain large amounts of deleted data) by removing the dirty blocks from your snapshot. Combined with a tool like fio or dd to read over the disk, your initialization times should be reduced.

GitLab Multi-Runner w/docker-machine and Spot Instances for much cheaper CI/CD

Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Summary: This article will hook up GitLab group (or project) runners to AWS Spot Instances through docker-machine, which in my professional experience gave us ~3-4 extra concurrent workers while reducing our cost by ~60%. This is mostly achieved by only spawning CI/CD instances only as they were needed and getting lower Spot instance rates.

Install Hugo 0.53 on Raspberry Pi 3 B+ armv71/armhf

Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Short Summary: This article will show you how you can install Hugo on a raspberry ARMv71/armhf) architecture – which is what the more recent Raspberry Pi’s are reporting at in modern OS’s – despite the fact Hugo’s project doesn’t publish the armhf package on their GitHub page.