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Amazon Software Developer Engineer salary statistics and cost of living

Dec 12, 2018

How much does an average Amazon Software Developer Engineer make, according to GlassDoor statistics? How does it compare with cost of living? Statistics for 26+ locations around the world!

How to estimate host fleet size? Why keeping CPU at 30% might NOT be waste of money?

Sep 9, 2018

What does maximum-connections, CPU autoscaling, money and distributed systems have in common? Find out.

How do you know the right maximum connections?

Jul 7, 2018

How do you know the right maxThreads (Tomcat/Java) or maxConnections (IIS/.NET) for your application? What is it? Why do I need to set that?

(Auto) scaling services by CPU? You are doing it wrong

Apr 4, 2018

Bob is a very successful guy. He is auto scaling his service by automatically adding hosts when the CPU increases, and he is removing them when CPU goes down. Dear Bob, there is a trap waiting for you around the corner.

What service metrics should be monitored?

Jan 1, 2018

Monitoring services is crucial, if you care about the application uptime. There are hundreds if not thousands parameters which you can (and should) monitor, related to CPU, network, hosts, application and so on. What are they? What are the non-obvious choices?

Types of alarms - what's beyond min-max checks?

Nov 11, 2017

If you ever maintained a live system - I’m sure you must have used the min-max alarms. However, are they always the best tool for the job?

What is Software Operational Excellence?

Nov 11, 2017

It seems that most people know the importance of software design patterns, best practices or continuous integration. While those subjects are important, there is one more equally essential term, which yields only one relevant result link on the first Google page. Meet Operational Excellence.

Rock solid pipeline - how to deploy to production comfortably?

Oct 10, 2017

First of all, this post won’t be for people who think developer’s job is to design, write code and test it. It’s far beyond that. One of the important responsibilities is to ship your code to production. How to do that safely?

The nightmare of large distributed systems

Jul 7, 2017

There are certain classes of exciting problems which are surfaced only in a massively distributed systems. This post will be about one of them. It’s rare, it’s real and if it happens, it will take your system down. The root cause, however, is easy to overlook.

What does it mean to design a highly scalable system?

Jun 6, 2017

It’s surprising how the volume of data is changing around the world, in the Internet. Who would have thought 10 years ago, that in future a physical experiment will generate 25 petabytes (26 214 400 GB) of data, yearly? Yes, I’m looking at you, LHC. Times are changing, companies are changing. Everyone is designing for scale a tad different. And that’s good, it’s important to design for the right scale.

Amazon Software Developer Engineer salary statistics and cost of living

Piotr Westfalewicz

Amazon Software Developer Engineer salary statistics and cost of living

How to estimate host fleet size? Why keeping CPU at 30% might NOT be waste of money?

How do you know the right maximum connections?

(Auto) scaling services by CPU? You are doing it wrong

What service metrics should be monitored?

Types of alarms - what's beyond min-max checks?

What is Software Operational Excellence?

Rock solid pipeline - how to deploy to production comfortably?

The nightmare of large distributed systems

What does it mean to design a highly scalable system?