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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
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Getting Started with Docker on AWS

I created and gave this presentation for Compute Evolved Week at the AWS New York Loft Downloads Introduction to Docker on AWS.pptx (23552 kb)

Mar 21, 2018 - 1 min read
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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 without needing a single EC2 server on the AWS account.

Feb 9, 2018 - 9 min read
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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 URL hosting a public, realtime chat web app.

Feb 1, 2018 - 9 min read
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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

Jan 26, 2018 - Official AWS Blog
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Moving from Monolith to Microservices with Amazon ECS

I developed a tutorial on how to containerize a monolithic application, break it up into various microservices, and deploy them using Amazon Elastic Container Service:

Jan 5, 2018 - 14 min watch
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AWS re:Invent 2017: Getting Started with Docker and Amazon ECS

I gave this talk at re:Invent 2017, introducing Docker and Amazon ECS. This was an intro level session, so it doesn’t go super deep, but should be useful if you are considering containers!

Nov 30, 2017 - 36 min watch
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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 an application, query the state of an application, or shut an application down.

Nov 30, 2017 - 3 min read
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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 the company’s location.

Nov 22, 2017 - 6 min read