S3 Express Append has issues AWS is clearly gearing up to make S3 Express a potential alternative to EBS disks. Like EBS, S3 Express is single zone. Earlier this year, AWS added the put-if-absent primitive to both S3 and S3 Express. Now it has released the ability to append to objects in S3 Express. While
Deterministic Simulation Testing on every commit Distributed Systems are notoriously hard to get right. You rely on Kafka. It’s the database you use when other databases are down. We can’t afford to get it wrong. Our first step was writing Astradot in Rust, the safest programming language currently available. It avoids memory corruption and
Designing Astradot's Cloud Platform, Part 2: Terraform In our previous blog post, we delved into our AWS architecture. Today, we will discuss the challenges we encountered while fully adopting Infrastructure-as-Code. In this post, we will outline some of the issues we faced with our Terraform setup, including enhancing developer efficiency, improving runtime performance, ensuring security, and reducing
Designing Astradot's Cloud Platform, Part 1: AWS At Astradot, we understand that building a robust and scalable cloud infrastructure is crucial for us to move forward quickly and efficiently. That's why we recently made the decision to rebuild our AWS setup to be truly 'enterprise' grade. During our journey, we realized that while
