Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
One of the services my team runs in AWS makes good use of Memcached (via the ElastiCache product). I say "good" use as we manage to achieve a hit rate of something like 98% most of the time, although now I realise that it comes at a significant cost - when this cache is removed, it takes a significant toll on the application. Unlike other applications that traditionally cache the results of MySQL…
The background to this story is that I spent the bulk of one week recently working on getting a prototype service deployed with AWS CloudFormation, and the experience was still reasonably painful. My team has other services deployed with CloudFormation, which is working perfectly fine (now) but I had hoped there would be some improvements available since the last time we went through the process.