Volkan Özçelik

I use loader.io for distributed load testing.

That especially matters when you have a cross-region load-balancer and you want to make sure how your app behaves on a global scale. Loader.io

With VCP, you can secure and segment your nodes.

It is easy to manage, flexible, and gives great control over your virtual infrastructure. Amazon VPC

CloudWatch is “on by default” in Amazon. And by just configuring a few alarms you can have a near-zero-cost monitoring service of your own. Amazon CloudWatch

Buddy is deployment: simplified.

With buddy, you can actually have fun while you deploy your infra.

Beautiful UI, excellent UX, solid product, fanatical support! Buddy

I use CodeCommit for projects that require a tighter integration with the AWS ecosystem.

Otherwise, my default source control system as a service of choice is: GitHub. AWS CodeCommit

I use AWS Workspaces for several things:

1. As a AWS-secured bastion host to connect to my infra.
2. As a "research machine" that I can use its upstream and downstream speed to do google searches, computations and downloads (only my 1Gbps office network beats their ~500mbps downlink speed; articles load in the blink of an eye; any download is almost instant).
3. An alternative development environment to test my tooling (how does that electron binary work in windows?)
4. A secure backup medium.
5. A mini-staging environment that also has great connectivity.
6. And an extension to my current Desktop.
7. And more…

Their desktop client, especially for Windows, work amazingly well. And they deliver what they promise. Amazon WorkSpaces

I mainly use it for the infrastructure notifications and alarms of zerotoherojs.com ’s learning dashboards. Amazon SNS

What you see is not what you get, never it is.

Documentation is better in Markdown format. You don’t need anything special to read it.

It is compact, portable, comparable.

Markdown is my text file format of choice. Markdown

At zerotoherojs.com there are two kinds of mailing that I send.

1. Important system emails.
2. News and updates.

I send the important emails using Mailgun, and news and updates using MailChimp.

For managing your mailing list, and sending occasional newsletters, MailChimp is the best. MailChimp

Crisp is a realtime chat widget that, unlike its competitors, does not demand your leg and kidney to deliver a decent service.

It works great for zerotoherojs.com and I recommend anyone if they have a similar need.

Even their free tier is more than enough for the majority of the use cases that you can think of. Crisp