• Introducing RequestBucketer: A system for putting HTTP requests in named buckets

  JR Heard has many big projects under his belt, and this week we'll get to learn about one of the most recent. Yelp pushes new code almost every day, so it's no surprise we get new features every week. But how do we make sure they're working as intended? JR describes one element of our…

• Test Driving and Benchmarking DataStax Enterprise's In-Memory Option for Cassandra

  With DataStax Enterprise (DSE) 4.0, we've included a new in-memory option for Cassandra that helps bring all the benefits of Cassandra that you appreciate to an in-memory database.

• Auto Scale DynamoDB With Dynamic DynamoDB

  Amazon DynamoDB is a fully-managed NoSQL database. When you create a DynamoDB table, you provision the desired amount of request capacity, taking in to account the amount of read and write traffic and the average size of each item. You...

• MFA Protection for Cross-Account Access

  Shon Shah, Senior Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, sent along a guest post announcing new IAM functionality that enables you to enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) when providing programmatic access across AWS accounts. -- Jeff;...