ktheory

Javascript request yak shave

I wanted to easily make HTTP requests (both GET & POST) with a simple interface that returns promises.

The popular request & request-promises package are good, but I wanted to figure out how to do it w/out using external dependencies.

The key features are:

• the ability to set a timeout
• non-200 responses are considered errors that reject the promise.
• any errors at the TCP socker/DNS level reject the promise.

anoldguy

Chili

Ingredients

• 4 lbs. well-trimmed round steak
• 6 large garlic cloves
• 4 lbs. coarsely ground hamburger meat
• 2 yellow onions, coarsely chopped
• 7 Tbsp. chili powder
• 3 Tbsp. ground cumin
• 6 tsp. salt

terabyte

Prologue

I wrote this answer on stackexchange, here: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/12597919/

It was wrongly deleted for containing "proprietary information" years later. I think that's bullshit so I am posting it here. Come at me.

The Question

Amazon is a SOA system with 100s of services (or so says Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels). How do they handle build and release?