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Zola: How to deploy a website using S3 Bucket and CloudFront
Deploying a Zola website on an S3 bucket via CloudFront can present some challenges, often due to misunderstandings about how CloudFront works. In this article, I share the configurations and strategies I used to make the Zola website fully functional with a CloutFront deployment.
Coordinated Omission: Why Your Latency Numbers Lie
Most HTTP benchmarking tools quietly hide tail latency when the server slows down. The phenomenon is called coordinated omission, it shows up almost exclusively in p99 and beyond, and it has caused production incidents at organisations that thought their load tests were green. This post explains the mechanism, demonstrates it empirically with a reproducible benchmark of eight tools across five server pathologies, and shows how to fix it with a constant arrival-rate workload model.
Computer history: Through Pieces of Apple History
A collection of documentaries and interviews that provide insights into the history of Apple Inc., its co-founder Steve Jobs, and the iconic products that revolutionized the tech industry.
AI: WAZE Syndrome and Bias Sensitivity
If we were to use generative AI in the same way we use Waze, we would end up accepting the ideas provided by the AI without thinking and allowing ourselves to be influenced by the biases, more or less deliberate, of those who design them. The ’Waze syndrome’ is a metaphor that illustrates our propensity to depend on AI without questioning the underlying datasets or the motivations of its creators.
