The Hacker News Effect My recent post was featured on Hacker News and rose to the number 2 spot, attracting over 45,000 requests or 29,000 unique IPs in a single day, a phenomenon known as the 'Hacker News Effect'. Since my Jekyll-generated site largely comprises static HTML, CSS and images and is hosted inexpensively on Amazon AWS with CloudFront, it was quite capable of handling this traffic surge. Utilizing CloudFront's traffic logs, I've created several visual representations to track and understand the flow of traffic geographically. 15 December 2022
Step 2 - Setup Elastic Beanstalk: Deploying a Rails Application to Elastic Beanstalk In this post, I describe how to set up, configure and deploy an Elastic Beanstalk application on a VPC in Amazon AWS, using Rails 5 and Ruby, using Puma for deployment and configuration of Public and Private subnets in Elastic Load Balancer. I also cover the details of network card settings, the selection process for subnets and security groups for Load Balancer and Instances, and finally shared the result of deploying the sample application on Elastic Beanstalk. 07 May 2017