Fubaredness Is Contagious

Do you remember how we used to programmatically consume services on the web before proliferation of APIs? That’s right – scraping! And do you know what prevents us from using this technique now, when some piece of data you need for your application, is not available via API? That’s right – absolutely nothing!
I recently came [...]

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I started a small new project on Github – http://github.com/somic/ec2-multiregion. It includes several small tools that facilitate EC2 API operations that involve multiple regions at the same time.
If I were to query each endpoint one after another, I quickly discovered it would take too long. Therefore, I created a small helper class called BotoWorkerPool (in [...]

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I am sure you’ve heard of Bertrand Russell’s paradox and one of its more widely known versions – Barber paradox. But let me rephrase the Wikipedia article:
Suppose there is a town with just one public IaaS cloud provider, and that every business in the town runs their own IT: some by hosting it on-premises, some [...]

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This post is about stuff I work on at my current job. I do not speak for my employer on this blog though, therefore please consider thoughts and opinions below as strictly my own, not necessarily endorsed or approved by CohesiveFT.
It has been about 6 months since I last blogged about work, so I figured [...]

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This is the third part of my series on Amazon EC2 security groups. In part 1, I described how security groups are possibly the most underappreciated feature in EC2. In part 2, I described a UDP hole punching technique, which led to some interesting conclusions.

On several occasions, when troubleshooting a connectivity issue or verifying a [...]

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