sgmansfield

I would hazard a guess that nearly all large scale use cases are negotiating those prices down quite a bit.

Call the credit card company and dispute the charges. Also, block any further charges if you can. Nothing gets people's attention like messing with their cash flow.

Fantastic article. I noticed a couple of TODO's around, though. Does this hint at a second installment? :)

Sure, but that ruins the fun :)

Thanks for letting me know, I'll see if I can fix it. If I could trouble you to do so, can you provide a screenshot?

This was probably not explained well. The compilation failed with an error saying that I was basically trying to do something that was not allowed.

For your second question: I don't believe there is a way to use a separate assembler.

client-side compression works out better for a couple of reasons:

1. You use less bandwidth in/out of the box. This matters in AWS because your bandwidth is (relatively) limited.

2. Your CPU usage to (de)compress is distributed over a larger fleet. The clients spend the CPU time, not the cache servers.