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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
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AWS Summit New York: Running Kubernetes on AWS

At the New York AWS Summit, I was live on Twitch at the AWS Launchpad with Abby Fuller, and Arun Gupta, talking about running Kubernetes on AWS:

Jul 19, 2018 - 18 min watch
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How I do local Docker development for my AWS Fargate application

This is part four in an ongoing series on developing an application that runs in AWS Fargate: Deploying the initial application skeleton to AWS Fargate Making the application horizontally autoscale in AWS Fargate Building a continuous integration / deployment pipeline In this article I’ll explore how to create a local development environment that lets me write code and test it in a container prior to using my CI/CD pipeline to deploy to the container to my production AWS Fargate environment.

May 22, 2018 - 10 min read
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AWS Summit London: Running Kubernetes on AWS

At the London AWS Summit, I was live on Twitch at the AWS Launchpad with Abby Fuller, and Adrian Hornsby, talking about running Kubernetes on AWS:

May 9, 2018 - 18 min watch
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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 one I just packaged up an open source chat application from socket.

May 7, 2018 - 8 min read
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New Features for Building Powerful Containerized Microservices on AWS

In this AWS tech talk I discussed the new service discovery feature integration with Amazon ECS, and did a live demo showing how to setup an ECS service with a DNS based service discovery, then make some requests to the service using its DNS address:

Apr 26, 2018 - 33 min watch
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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 years.

Apr 20, 2018 - 4 min read
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AWS Summit SF 2018: Architectures and Strategies for Building Modern Applications on AWS

This deck was super cool, I loved the content and message, as well as the slick animations on some of the slides: View the deck here:

Apr 11, 2018 - 53 min watch
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Compute Evolved Week: Building Microservices with the 12 Factor App Pattern on AWS

I created and gave this presentation for Compute Evolved Week at the AWS New York Loft Downloads Building 12 factor app microservices.pptx (15038 kb)

Apr 9, 2018 - 1 min read