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Making my Socket.io chat app production ready with Vue.js, DynamoDB, CodePipeline, and CodeBuild
This is part three of a series on developing a Socket.io and AWS Fargate powered realtime chat application on AWS. Building a Socket.io chat app and deploying it using AWS Fargate (In part …
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How to setup Service Discovery in Amazon Elastic Container Service
One of the core benefits of containers is that they enable dynamic deployments. In the old days an application server might stay hosted on the same EC2 server for weeks, months, or even …
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Scaling a realtime chat app on AWS using Socket.io, Redis, and AWS Fargate
In the last article we deployed a realtime chat application using AWS Fargate. The result was a containerized Node.js process running a socket.io server. This container runs in AWS Fargate …
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Building a Socket.io chat app and deploying it using AWS Fargate
This article walks through the process of building a chat application, containerizing it, and deploying it using AWS Fargate. The result of following along with this guide will be a working …
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Task Networking in AWS Fargate
Deep dive into networking on AWS Fargate, including the new AWS VPC networking mode and how it works with Elastic Network Interfaces
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Choosing your container environment on AWS with ECS, EKS, and Fargate
The Control Plane When deploying containers on AWS the control plane is your entry point to running your application. It is the interface that you will interact with when you want to launch …
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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