When Your Website Goes Dark: Tales of DNS Malfunctions

I was working at a start-up company that had grown from a dozen people to about 80 employees in a couple of years. It was a busy time, Web traffic was picking up every day. And then one Wednesday, we noticed a dramatic drop in incoming email, and the hits on the website dropped like a rock. But not rock bottom. Frantically, I tested from the outside and inside. Everything was fine.

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AWS’ Hottest New Products Launched at re:Invent 2015

Amazon Web Services’ yearly shindig, re:Invent, turned out to be yet another whirlwind of information and product releases. Here’s the skinny on all of the important new services, in the order of what I see as the most impactful. Like all major cloud providers these days, AWS is launching these services in beta or preview mode. But in AWS parlance, that simply means that the services don’t yet have all features they’d like to see in production. All of the services below are available for immediate use.

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