I was amazed how much attention my last blog post about the speed tests I had done after after enabling CloudFront on my S3 static content. The post was re-tweeted over and over on Twitter and today I even saw follow-ups of people saying they were... Continue Reading

Cloudfront is Simply Marvelous

How big of a difference does Cloudfront make? I have been slowly transitioning more and more of our services to the Amazon Cloud with S3 and SimpleDB. We had a particularly busy weekend last week (which will continue to increase for the next... Continue Reading
Several years ago, back when I was a budding junior web developer back at MindComet--better known as the evil empire--I was part of a fantastic (if under-appreciated and under-paid) development team that included at the time folks like Jerry Jackson... Continue Reading

In the Cloud

So I'm really interested in trying to get working with Amazon's S3 this summer. I'm hoping I have time to do that. I have been worried about the additional responsibility of really opening up the floodgates for our huge user base to start... Continue Reading