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Building early microservice boundaries that you won't regret later

Over the years I’ve seen developer enthusiasm for microservices rise and fall. Some developers become staunch advocates of microservice architecture, while others become disillusioned with distributed systems and now favor monolithic architecture.

Mar 22, 2021 - 8 min read
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Connecting to an interactive shell on your containers running in AWS Fargate using AWS Copilot

I wrote one of the official launch blogs for ECS Exec, a new feature that provides a `docker exec` equivalent for ECS + EC2, and ECS + Fargate

Mar 16, 2021 - Official AWS Blog
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Improving Observability with AWS App Mesh and Amazon ECS

I delivered this session as part of AWS re:Invent 2020. You can find the recording, PowerPoint deck, and transcript below. Download the presentation: Improving Observability with AWS App Mesh and Amazon ECS.

Feb 5, 2021 - 27 min watch
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Choosing your container environment on AWS with Lightsail, ECS, EKS, Lambda, and Fargate

Back in 2017 I wrote an article about choosing your container environment on AWS. AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service had just launched at AWS re:Invent, joining the preexisting Amazon Elastic Container Service.

Jan 13, 2021 - 1 min read
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Looking back on four years at AWS as a developer advocate

Today is officially the four year anniversary of my start date at AWS as a developer advocate. I thought I’d take a moment to write up my thoughts on the past four years working in this incredibly interesting role, at one of the most interesting companies in the world, on some incredibly interesting technology.

Jan 3, 2021 - 10 min read
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On Premises - What does it really mean today?

One of the AWS re:Invent 2020 announcements was the launch of ECS Anywhere, and EKS anywhere. In this Containers From The Couch episode we discussed what on-prem means, and the many options that you have for bridging your on-premise needs with the AWS cloud environment.

Dec 15, 2020 - 53 min watch
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AWS re:Invent 2020 + Containers from the Couch Recap

At AWS re:Invent 2020 we launched a ton of new things for containers on AWS! I joined Brent Langston, Adam Keller, Justin Garrison, and Jesse Butler to recap the launches and what they mean for AWS customers:

Dec 4, 2020 - 1 hour, 40 min watch
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Is YAML a real programming language?

A few days ago I wrote an article about common misconceptions on AWS Cloud Development Kit. In that article I made the following statement: “YAML is definitely a real programming language.

Nov 18, 2020 - 7 min read
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Announcing the General Availability of Amazon ECS Service Extensions for AWS CDK

In late 2018, we first shared an introduction to using AWS Cloud Development Kit with Amazon ECS. In the almost two years since that article, countless developers have discovered...

Nov 17, 2020 - Official AWS Blog