8/31/2021 AWS Outage Post-Mortem
On Tuesday, August 31st, AWS had an outage in their us-west-2 region. At 18:00 UTC that day, we experienced an increase in 5xx error codes returned by our API, as well as a slowdown in transcription turnaround time.
Mitch Anderson
Senior DevOps Engineer at AssemblyAI
Open Sourcing Drone Deploy ECS
We’re excited to announce that we’ve open sourced another project! drone-deploy-ecs is a Drone plugin that enables you to deploy updates to ECS.
Open Sourcing our Drone CI/CD CloudWatch Auto Scaler
At AssemblyAI, we use Drone as our primary CI/CD tool. It's dead simple to set up and operate which frees us up to build out our product. Recently we decided to figure out how to build a cost-effective, easily-scalable Drone worker fleet for our GPU instances.