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Develop a Web App Using Amazon ECS and AWS Cloud Development Kit

I presented an AWS Tech Talk on the benefits of building with AWS Cloud Development Kit, then showed some of the higher level constructs and tooling that AWS CDK offers for containerized applications, and finished off with a live demo.

Sep 26, 2019 - 56 min watch
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AWS Summit New York: Build Your First Containerized App with AWS CDK

This super fun AWS Launchpad session streamed live on Twitch at the New York AWS Summit. I got to talk about the new AWS Cloud Development Kit with Uttara Sridar, Nicki Stone, and Brandon West:

Jul 29, 2019 - 19 min watch
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AWS Summit New York: Testing Containers Locally with Amazon ECS Local Endpoints and Docker Compose

This was a fun AWS launchpad with Uttara Sridar, about new local development features for Amazon ECS. I did a live demo of a local development process for vending IAM roles to the AWS SDK in your local containers, similarly to how the ECS task IAM roles get vended to containers running in production.

Jul 29, 2019 - 21 min watch
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Container Office Hours: Building a container CI/CD Pipeline

In this episode I build a CI/CD pipeline that builds and updates my live containerized application, with just a Git push. I ran into a few issues during this episode, but that just makes it all the more fun!

Jun 5, 2019 - 1 hr 4 min watch
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Container Office Hours: Build your first image

In this episode Brent Langston and I sit down and walk through building a first Docker container image, including optimizing it! Enjoy!

May 16, 2019 - 1 hr 2 min watch
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Container Office Hours: Developing a Container App with AWS Cloud Development Kit

Containers are a powerful tool for packaging your application and running it in the cloud. In this session I took a look at the Amazon Cloud Development Kit and used it to build and deploy a container application:

May 9, 2019 - 1 hr 1 min watch
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Designing a modern serverless application with AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate

Recently I built and open sourced a sample application called changelogs.md. The application watches for open source packages on NPM, RubyGems, and PyPI. When a package is added or updated it crawls any changelog found in the package source code.

Apr 10, 2019 - 9 min read
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Setting up AWS PrivateLink for Amazon ECS, and Amazon ECR

I wrote an official AWS Compute blog article, describing how to configure AWS PrivateLink for Amazon ECS and Amazon ECR

Jan 29, 2019 - Official AWS Blog
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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