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A quick (opinionated) guide to securing data on AWS now!
The EU General Data Protection Regulation goes into enforcement in May 2018. It applies to “all companies processing the personal data of data subjects residing in the Union, regardless of …
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Using AWS Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer with EC2 Container Service
Amazon Web Services recently released new second generation load balancers: Application Load Balancer (ALB), and Network Load Balancer (NLB). This was accompanied by a rename of the previous …
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Granular Application Architecture Patterns
One of the recent trends in server side application development is to decompose a large application into smaller pieces which are more granular. This article explores application …
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Microservice Testing: Unit Tests
The previous article introduced the test pyramid, and some of the basics of how to apply it to a distributed system: This article zooms in on the unit test layer of the testing pyramid and …
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Microservice Testing: Introduction
Automated testing is one of the most important things that a software company needs in order to be successful. Properly tested code operates in a consistent and dependable manner which …
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Microservice Principles: Decentralized Data Management
Microservice philosophy favors decentralization in all aspects of software design. This focus on decentralization doesn’t just guide the organization of business logic. It also guides how …
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Microservice Principles: Decentralized Governance
One of the most important realizations that a software engineer can make in his or her career is that there is no single perfect tool for solving every computer science problem, and that …
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Microservice Principles: Smart Endpoints and Dumb Pipes
As engineering organizations transition from building monolithic architecture to building microservices architecture one challenge they often face is understanding how to enable …
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Deploying an NGINX Reverse Proxy Sidecar Container on Amazon ECS
Official AWS Compute blog about launching an Amazon ECS task that has two containers: an application container and an Nginx sidecar container that functions as a reverse proxy