restore a versioned S3 bucket to the state it was at at a specific point in time

Very interesting writeup on how Netflix are finding operating a serverless scripting system; they offer scriptability in their backend and it's used heavily by devs to provide features. Lots of having to reinvent the wheel on packaging, deployment, versioning, and test/staging infrastructure

another Dan Luu post -- good summary of the monorepo's upside

interesting approach to working around ECS' shortcomings -- bit specific to Hailo's microservices arch and IPC mechanism though.

aside: I like their version numbering scheme: ISO-8601, YYYYMMDDHHMMSS. keep it simple!

'a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments. '

Basically, this is a third-party open source reimplementation of Amazon's (excellent) internal packaging system, using symlinks to versioned package directories to ensure atomicity and the ability to roll back. This is definitely the *right* way to build packages -- I know what tool I'll be pushing for, next time this question comes up.

See also nixos.org for a Linux distro built on Nix.