I attended the AWS Summit London 2025 yesterday, accompanied by the excellent Tom Spurling.
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Back of a napkin load testing
In this technical breakdown, I describe some easy-to-implement load testing that I carried out in order to get a rough idea of how much traffic this blog can handle, before I need to upgrade to a scaling infrastructure.
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bergw.xyz site design and architecture – part 4, blog
Learn how the blog and other services running under subdomains of bergw.xyz are set up.
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Set up email on your own domain on AWS for $4 a month
In this post, I describe my experience with using Amazon WorkMail for my personal email.
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bergw.xyz site design and architecture – part 3, www
Read about the implementation of the HTTPS-only static site served from S3 via Cloudfront.
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bergw.xyz site design and architecture – part 2, Route 53
Let’s look more closely at the DNS configuration and domain registration for bergw.xyz, both of which are managed in AWS Route 53.
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bergw.xyz site design and architecture – part 1, introduction
This is the first in a series of posts describing the design, architecture and implementation of bergw.xyz, the website you’re reading right now.
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