Fastly’s Altitude Summit

Rajiv Pant spoke at Fastly's Altitude 2016 Summit about a CTO's role in building stakeholder buy-in for infrastructure engineering projects.

Hosting Large-Scale Web Sites: Contract Review Guide for the CTO

A comprehensive contract review guide for CTOs covering servers, networks, managed services, CDN, SLAs, and negotiation strategies for web hosting.

Understanding SLA Uptime Percentages: What They Really Mean for Your Business

A guide to understanding SLA uptime percentages, converting them to real downtime durations, and aligning measurement windows with billing cycles.

Checklist for Migration of Web Application from Traditional Hosting to Cloud

Pre-cutover, during-cutover, and post-cutover checklists for migrating web applications from traditional hosting to cloud platforms like Amazon EC2.

Benefits of Using IRC or Group Chat & Video Conference During Incident Management

Why technology teams should use IRC or group chat during incident management, with benefits for coordination, transparency, and post-incident analysis.

Save Money On Hosting & CDN By Optimizing Your Architecture & Applications

A guide for technology managers on modeling, monitoring, and reducing web hosting and CDN costs for large-scale web properties.

Save Your Company Money In Monthly Bills Using Browser Caching

How companies operating large websites can save thousands monthly by maximizing browser-side caching to reduce bandwidth and CDN costs.

Using Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) with an EC2 Instance

A technical guide to using Amazon Elastic Block Store with EC2 instances, including commands for persistent storage setup and data migration.

Opinion on the Amazon S3 Outage; Checklist for Dealing with Outages

Communication checklists for during-incident and post-incident responses, with leadership principles on owning responsibility for outages.

This Web Site is Now Hosted on Amazon EC2 & S3

How and why this website was migrated to Amazon EC2 and S3, including benefits, potential drawbacks, and detailed LAMP stack configuration.