PHP apps can easily begin to slow down over time as they grow, and with the recent patches for the Meltdown vulnerability adding a performance penalty to many workloads this slowdown can be amplified. Often there are some simple changes that can be made in order to see a measurable performance improvement for production workloads.
Recently I've been trying to make some improvements to sites that I'm ivolved with, particularly converting images to SVG format and implementing HTTP Content Security Policy (more to come on those later). While doing so I ran into a strange issue to do with how Microsoft Edge handles the combination of these two technologies which only seems to be documented in an Edge bug report.
The documentation surrounding AWS Aurora reserved instances is a little confusing. One of its main selling points is seamless Multi-AZ replication at the storage level; however, when you purchase reserved instances the Multi-AZ option is fixed at "No". Does this mean you can't run read replicas in another AZ if you're using reserved instances? Will you be charged the on-demand rate for your read replicas?
