Zumper and Lessons from tvOS Design

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The US based Zumper has released an tvOS app for the Apple TV. In doing so, the development team had to rethink how they approached design and implementation for this totally new user experience.

15 November 2015

Elasticsearch as a Time Series Data Store

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As the project manager of stagemonitor, an open source performance monitoring tool, I've recently been looking for a database to replace the cool-but-aging Graphite Time Series DataBase (TSDB) as the backend. TSDBs are specialised packages for storing…

13 November 2015

How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name

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How Apple Is Giving Design A Bad NameFor years, Apple followed user-centered design principles. Then something went wrong. Once upon a time, Apple was known for designing easy-to-use, easy-to-understand products. It was a champion of the graphical user…

13 November 2015

API Throttling to Protect Your Resources

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Throttling is the intention of giving limited usage to an available resource you have in your hand. For instance, if you are exposing your API to be used publicly, you may want to limit the usage of the API because of expensive computation, limited…

13 November 2015

3 simple ways of saving up to 90% of EC2 costs

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An EC2 instance is billed at an hourly rate depending on the instance type and the region by default. This pricing model is called on-demand. It is the simplest but also most expensive way of using EC2 instances. There are two other purchasing options for…

13 November 2015

Cloudflare Introduces Universal DNSSEC: Secure DNS for Your Domain

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12 November 2015

Public Beta: December 3, 2015

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Let’s Encrypt will enter Public Beta on December 3, 2015. Once we’ve entered Public Beta our systems will be open to anyone who would like to request a certificate. There will no longer be a requirement to sign up and wait for an invitation. Our Limited…

12 November 2015