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Managing Microservice Deployments on AWS with HashiCorp Consul

A webinar about integrations between AWS and HashiCorp Consul. I got to join Anubhav Mishra and do a live demo of deploying a Consul Connect service mesh on an Amazon ECS cluster!

Jan 20, 2019 - 59 min watch
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AWS Fargate Price Reduction – Up to 50%

I published on the official AWS compute blog, announcing a significant price reduction for AWS Fargate, up to 50% for some task sizes!

Jan 7, 2019 - Official AWS Blog
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Getting started with the AWS Cloud Development Kit for Amazon ECS

I wrote an official AWS Compute blog to introduce the new AWS Cloud Development Kit abstractions for Amazon ECS

Dec 17, 2018 - Official AWS Blog
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Getting Started with Containers

I chatted with Abby Fuller about how to get started with containers on AWS, and showed how to deploy a simple Nyan cat sample application using easy prebuilt CloudFormation templates.

Dec 12, 2018 - 3 min watch
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AWS re:Invent 2018: Running a High-Performance Kubernetes Cluster with Amazon EKS

I gave this talk at re:Invent 2018, about tips and tricks for running high performance workloads in a Kubernetes cluster: I was joined by Yekesa Yosuru of State Street, who did a live demo of an Amazon EKS Kubernetes cluster running Vitess at an impressive 1.

Nov 29, 2018 - 54 min watch
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AWS re:Invent 2018: Operations for Containerized Applications

I gave this presentation on operations for containerized application with Tiffany Jernigan: Downloads operations-for-containerized-applications.pdf (1729 kb)

Nov 28, 2018 - 1 min read
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Migrating your Amazon ECS deployment to the new ARN and resource ID format

Launch blog for a new Amazon ECS format for resource ARN's. This new format enabled new ECS features, but required a migration process to opt in

Nov 15, 2018 - Official AWS Blog
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Scaling a Containerized Application Seamlessly with AWS Fargate

An AWS Tech Talk to introduce AWS Fargate. I start with a simple introduction to container orchestration concepts. Then I dive deeper into the resource types and configuration options available to you when using AWS Fargate, including a deep dive into the networking aspects.

Nov 14, 2018 - 37 min watch
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Setting up AWS PrivateLink for Amazon ECS, and Amazon ECR

I significantly refactored the official Linkerd 1.x instructions to make it much easier to deploy a Linkerd service mesh on Amazon ECS

Oct 3, 2018 - Linkerd Docs