A couple of months ago, I fell in love with the Platform as a Service (PaaS) Heroku for a new web application that we are building. Compared to managing a farm of EC2 instances and other Amazon Web Services (AWS) products, Heroku seemed like a …

I was just thinking about the recent AWS outage and came to the conclusion that infrequent events like this probably help Amazon. While the first wave of response is usually criticism and doubt, the end result is probably increased adoption. Here is why. …

I have a site that was affected by the recent AWS outage that took out Netflix, Instagram, and Pinterest on Friday. I thought I was in the clear when I checked on Friday. But I when I checked again on Sunday evening, my site …