In the last post, Samuell (from the og-aws Slack group) figured out his negative TTL problems in Cloudfront. During that session, we actually solved two different problems. This post is to finish off that conversation and address the other problem, which was how to use the default error page in Cloudfront.

So you want to A/B test your web app. The idea is simple, but the details can get messy, and you don’t want to re-invent the wheel. Services like Optimizely are pretty good, but they can be expensive and full of features you don’t need immediately. In this post, we’ll share how Sentry wrote an experimentation system with minimal work.

Welcome to the second edition of Serverless from the Trenches, our series of bite-sized blog posts aimed at developers and DevOps working in serverless. Each article will focus on a different technique or tool to solve a real-world problem and – hopefully – help make your work in serverless more productive. This week we look at how to add Cognito to your integration tests flow, making for true black box testing.

One of the most common questions we get at Honeycomb is about how to control costs while still achieving the level of observability needed to debug, troubleshoot, and understand what is happening in production. Historically, the answer from most vendors has been to aggregate your data–to offer you calculated medians, means, and averages rather than the deep context you gain from having access to the actual events coming from your production environment.

I joined BigPanda a year ago yesterday – and I can truly say it’s been one of the most intense and exciting years, both personally and professionally. A roller-coaster ride of PG activities, POVs and nourishing partnerships with our prospects and customers. And looking back at all that I’ve gone through, one of my strongest takeaways is that while our product is amazing and our POVs are rock solid, in the end it’s the people who tip the scales.

OnPage has always been dedicated to providing powerful features, ensuring that healthcare practitioners streamline their communications, operations and workflows. Today, OnPage is taking another step forward with its latest release, offering new capabilities and features built for today’s healthcare organizations. I’ll now highlight some on the latest and greatest additions to OnPage’s clinical communications and pager replacement platform.

Just starting out with Dashbird? Great, you are in the right place. I’ve been speaking with hundreds of our new users in the past couple for months about their experience with Dashbird. I must say the feedback has been incredible so far. However, there are a few things I’ve noticed that our users haven’t yet taken advantage of within the platform. For a better success, let me point them out to you.

Software is eating the world. How we spend time, what we eat, who we meet, how we communicate, where we travel... is defined by the code. Increasingly, software is calling the shots and telling humans what to do. With deep learning, this trend is just going to accelerate. The most powerful companies that used to rule the world with professional, skilled executives are becoming incumbents getting disrupted.

WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world, accounting for more than 60% of the market. The reasons for such popularity are obvious: it’s a convenient and powerful system with dozens of built-in tools and thousands of themes and plugins. WordPress offers numerous benefits and allows you to quickly create a customized website, no matter whether you have a news blog or an e-commerce business.

Since the new year we've released a bunch of new features and plans. The total number of Downtime Monkey users has increased by over 50% and the number of websites being monitored has more than doubled. So we've taken the last few weeks to relax, kick-back and take it easy catch up with some maintenance. We've reduced memory use of clean-up scripts, automated the addition of free SMS credits upon sign-up and applied a bugfix to our Slack App.