EC2Instances.info – A Handy Interactive Guide to AWS EC2 Instance Sizing and Pricing

One of the most challenging aspects of the AWS ecosystem is navigating the pricing and sizing options when looking at EC2 instances.  Luckily, there is a rather nifty tool out there which has been created by a community member and hosted on GitHub which you can find at http://ec2Instances.info The ec2Instances.info site lets you dig … Read more

Public Cloud Performance – Solving the Problem of Inconsistency-as-a-Service

I don’t often dig into the specific work I do at Turbonomic, but there are some times when I really want to share the powerful stuff that I’ve been able to be a part of.  Some recent stuff came up which really hit home.  As I’m at the start of my first AWS re:Invent in … Read more

Manually Deploying a Jekyll Website to Amazon S3

Using Jekyll as web site generator is a very powerful way to make use of some interesting ways to create and deliver content. It’s much simpler than having to create and edit the entire site in raw HTML and CSS yourself. There are lots of templates available online to deploy on a Jekyll framework. What … Read more

Setting up a GitBook for a Custom Domain

If you haven’t already looked at the GitBook platform, you definitely should.  There are a number of very interesting ways that you can use this for creating easy-to-use documentation sites using simple markdown and the hosted platform.  SaaS FTW! Let’s view a simple way to add a custom domain name to an existing GitBook site.  For … Read more