Mobycast

In episode #109 of Mobycast, we started our discussion on how to build a massively scalable image hosting service. We talked about the general architecture and then dove deep on how to handle image uploads. But uploading is only half the solution. We also need to allow downloads of the images. Turns out, downloading is a totally different game. In this episode of Mobycast, Jon and Chris finish their two-part series on building an image hosting solution. We discuss in detail how to enable downloads of files with the help of CloudFront, a global network of edge locations that makes it easy to achieve massive scale.

If you are building software apps, at some point you will likely need to build an image hosting service (let's be honest, probably more than once!). Image hosting is a core feature of many apps, and it's important to get right. We all know the best practices for building image hosting in the cloud. Start with Amazon S3 for the uploads. Then serve them up with a CDN like CloudFront. Easy, right? Well, as usual, the devil's in the details. In this episode of Mobycast, Jon and Chris kick off a two-part series detailing how to build a massively scalable image hosting service. We share hard-won tips and tricks so you can avoid common pitfalls when building your own solution.

This is the fifth and final episode that we’re re-releasing from back when we told Chris’s personal story of starting Viathan, which was a software startup built to create one of the first internet scale databases. In this episode, we compare Viathan’s pre-cloud architecture to that of DynamoDB. They’re less different than you might expect!

Welcome to Mobycast! This is the fourth episode that we’re re-releasing from back when we told Chris’s personal story of starting Viathan, which was a software startup built to create one of the first internet scale databases. In this episode we finish our deep dive into the technical details of how AWS’s Dynamo DB works. If you’re just joining us at Mobycast, thanks for sticking with us through this five part series. By the end, you’ll be ready to join us on any of our other technical deep dives.

Welcome to Mobycast! This is the third episode that we’re re-releasing from back when we told Chris’s personal story of starting Viathan, which was a software startup built to create one of the first internet scale databases. In this episode we start to dive into the technical details of how AWS’s Dynamo DB works. If you’re just joining us at Mobycast, this will be your first taste of getting technical with us as we ease you into our library of curated, important cloud-native development topics.

Welcome to Mobycast! This is the second episode that we’re re-releasing from back when we told Chris’s personal story of starting Viathan, which was a software startup built to create one of the first internet scale databases. You’ll get to see how his work in the early 2000’s/late 90’s was instrumental to what later became the databases that we count on today. Anyway, the reason that you should listen to this is not because it’s a fun story but because we’re asking you to trust us here at Mobycast when we tell you what we think is the best way to do distributed systems and cloud-native development, and what better way to learn to trust us than to listen to how Chris got started in this whole world…

We present to you a remastered and re-released version of one of our early shows from 2018. It was one of our most popular shows of all time, and in it, Chris Hickman recounts his story of being a Microsoft employee dealing with issues of internet scaling in the late 90s to becoming one of the pioneers of NoSQL. Listen to this series to get to know Chris. These are the formative years of the guy who made Mobycast possible with his incredible depth and breadth of development experience.

Cloud lock-in is always fun to talk about. Conversations abound on Twitter, at conferences, and by the water cooler. This week we replay an early episode from June 13, 2018 to see if our opinions on cloud lock-in have changed in the past two years.  Spoiler alert: they haven't.

You can learn how to be a great software developer by listening to this podcast. Get to know Chris and Jon by listening to our personal story, and continue from there into topics ranging from serverless to Docker to networking, encryption, and purpose built databases. We cover all the concepts great web application developers are expected to know.

Back in episode #94 of Mobycast, we showed how Amazon Elastic Container Service (or ECS) makes it easy to inject sensitive data into your containers. However, ECS only injects secrets at container startup. It's up to you to ensure that the container is restarted if secrets are updated. But who wants to manually restart containers? In this episode of Mobycast, Jon and Chris are back to provide an automated solution to this problem. We show you step-by-step how to leverage CloudWatch Events and Lambda to automatically update your container secrets. After listening, you'll be able to "automate all things". Well... at least for updating container secrets :-).