AWS

AWS Lambda development pipeline

Overview The past year, PeoplePerHour has entered the microservices arena, containerising its platform and separating it into services. On the process of doing so, we realised how much we lacked message buses and long running daemons to process requests, either real time or in an…

Calculating IOPS needed in AWS RDS

One of the most vicious and hard to detect issues in database performance deterioration is I/O. When the I/O of a database is lagging there are multiple and unpredicted issues occuring. Some of the most common are: Increased amount of slow queries Write operations get…

YiiSES Setup guide

We wanted to build a marketing email application (which we are calling “MailChap”) and since we are a Yii shop I figured before we started, we should try the YiiSES module. Setup was a little tricky so I documented it here in case it’s useful…