Dickerson’s Hierarchy of Service Reliability
Was watching a talk from the 2016 O’Reilly Velocity Conference and stumbled across this.
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Useful git aliases
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Moving my Jekyll website from GitHub Pages to S3
A couple months ago, I decided to take the leap and migrate this website from GitHub Pages to S3.
About this site
I wanted to write a quick post about the architecture of this site for those who may be interested.