A week ago I tried to migrate the blog to Wordpress again. I decided to give it another chance because I had plans to add more images to posts. It's quite difficult to do it using Pelican. Wordpress has a great tool for image managing. I thought that its WYSIWYG editor was good too. I installed it and I even converted a couple of posts to it. But then I decided to stop. It took me 20 minutes to format properly that posts.

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Google is using HTTPS as a ranking signal since August 2016. Amazon lets their users free certificates. This two factors forces me to find out how to set up HTTPS for my S3 blogs. The solution is to place an S3 bucket behind CloudFront.

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Sometimes front-end team or other API clients ask to show them total number of objects in API replies. But if you use MongoDB, try not to do this. It slows down your API.

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