Archive for May, 2016
Quick and Dirty Shoestring Startup Infra
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in School, Sysadmin on May 31, 2016
At the University of Waterloo, we have a Final Year Design Project/Capstone project. My group is working on a conference management suite called Calligre. We’ve been approaching it as kind of a startup – we presented a pitch at a competition and won! While sorting out admin details with the judges after, they were oddly […]
Notes from various AWS Investigations
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Programming, Sysadmin on May 21, 2016
AWS CloudWatch Logs storage charge == S3 storage charge. Possibly less, since the logs are gziped level 6 first. CW Logs makes more sense than using AWS Elasticsearch at small scale – prices start at 1.8c an hour + EBS charges vs 50c/GB of log ingestion + storage For pure log storage & bulk retrival, […]