I’ve updated the Chocolatey NuGet (CNG) packages for Elixir, Erlang and Rebar.  If you’re unfamiliar with CNG it’s analogous to apt-get on Ubuntu or yum/dnf on Fedora except it’s for Windows. The Elixir (v1.4.4) and Erlang (v19.3) are already visible and ready for download.  The Rebar (v3.4.1) is still in the approval process but should […]

Tweet TL;DR – The no. of partitions in a DynamoDB table goes up in response to increased load or storage size, but it never come back down, ever. DynamoDB is pretty great, but as I have seen this particular problem at 3 different companies – Gamesys, JUST EAT, and now Space Ape Games – I think

Tweet Having previously blogged about the untrodden path to enable caching on API Gateway request parameters in the Serverless framework 0.5.X, it’s a little disappointing that it’s still not officially fixed in the 1.X versions… The Problem The problem is two-fold: there’s currently no way to specify caching should be enabled for path & query

Tweet The Road So Far part 1 : overview part 2 : testing and continuous delivery strategies part 3 : ops   Just before Yubl’s untimely demise we did an interesting piece of work to redesign the system for sending targeted push notifications to our users to improve retention. The old system relied on MixPanel for both selecting users as

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