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A new direction for my career

For the past seven years I’ve been working with builders who want to deploy containers on AWS. You may know me from personal assistance I’ve given you in direct messages, from reading my social media posts and blog posts about Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate, or from using my reference architecture patterns on Containers on AWS.

Mar 28, 2024 - 5 min read
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The website is down. The cloud is up.

It has been well over a decade since I embarked on my journey with the cloud. I spent the first five years of my career as a customer of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Mar 25, 2024 - 6 min read
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Rethinking infrastructure as code from scratch

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about infrastructure complexity, and the current state of infrastructure as code. This is problem space that many talented people are tackling.

Jul 20, 2023 - 18 min read
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What I've learned from 6 years as a developer advocate

I’m about to reach six years as a developer advocate at Amazon Web Services. Two years ago I shared a retrospective look at my first four years as a developer advocate and many people have told me that article was helpful for them.

Dec 21, 2022 - 16 min read
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Your first Node.js container on AWS

You are a Node.js developer. You have written Node code and can run your application on your local developer machine, but you aren’t really that familiar with containers and container orchestration.

Aug 6, 2022 - 9 min read
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Diving into Amazon ECS task history with Container Insights

Container orchestrators like Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) are constantly watching over your application, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, more attentively than any human operator ever could.

May 27, 2022 - 10 min read
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Under the hood: Amazon Elastic Container Service and AWS Fargate increase task launch rates

For the 7 year anniversary of the launch of Amazon ECS, I wrote an official AWS blogpost about improvements to make ECS + Fargate up to 16x faster at launching tasks.

Apr 13, 2022 - Official AWS Blog
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Concurrency Deep Dive: Code Strategies for High Traffic Applications

If you are a developer who is building a client/server application, then you are probably interested in building a server architecture that can handle high traffic from a large number of concurrent users.

Apr 4, 2022 - 10 min read
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Why should I use an orchestrator like Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, or Hashicorp Nomad?

If you work in software development for the cloud you have probably heard of infrastructure orchestrators such as Kubernetes, Amazon Elastic Container Service, or Hashicorp Nomad.

Feb 17, 2022 - 6 min read