SQS Benchmark (with large messages)

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a scalable and fully managed message queuing service that allows users to transmit any amount of data through the web without administrative responsibility. Recently, I tried to evaluate whenever the SQS service will fit my needs for a design I’m working on. My…

Why you shouldn’t trust the documentation ?

Today Microsoft Azure introduced the new F-series VM sizes (you can read about it here) and our software faced a bizarre issue. When we want to create a new instance in Azure, we have an implementation that chooses VM size based on some criteria. One of the criteria is the…