Chris Coulson's Developer Notes

Month: March 2014

  • Shufflrr is Being Introduced at the NY Tech Meetup

    Shufflrr is a PowerPoint presentation management web app that I’ve been working on for the past year. This Tuesday, April 1st at 7:00 PM, Shufflrr will be introduced to the world at the NY Tech Meetup. Link to the meetup and live video stream of the presentation here: http://nytm.org/blog/entry/14-27-2014/lineup-for-april-1-ny-tech-meetup Link to Shufflrr: http://www.shufflrr.com/

  • Amazon EBS CrystalDiskMark Benchmarks – EBS Standard vs Provisioned IOPS

    I recently set up a provisioned IOPS EBS volume on Amazon EC2.  I decided to run CrystalDiskMark against it to see how it compared to a standard EBS volume in terms of performance.  I wanted to know if provisioned IOPS is worth the extra money that you pay for it.  Here are the results: EBS…