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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.
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
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.
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.
Using AWS Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer with EC2 Container Service
Amazon Web Services recently released new second generation load balancers: Application Load Balancer (ALB), and Network Load Balancer (NLB). This was accompanied by a rename of the previous generation of load balancer to Classic Load Balancer.
Granular Application Architecture Patterns
One of the recent trends in server side application development is to decompose a large application into smaller pieces which are more granular. This article explores application architecture patterns, starting from the venerable monolithic application, to smaller microservices, and finally the most granular pattern of all: functions as a service.
Microservice Testing: Unit Tests
The previous article introduced the test pyramid, and some of the basics of how to apply it to a distributed system: This article zooms in on the unit test layer of the testing pyramid and explores ways to build effective unit tests for distributed systems such as microservice deployments.
Microservice Testing: Introduction
Automated testing is one of the most important things that a software company needs in order to be successful. Properly tested code operates in a consistent and dependable manner which generates customer trust.
Microservice Principles: Decentralized Data Management
Microservice philosophy favors decentralization in all aspects of software design. This focus on decentralization doesn’t just guide the organization of business logic. It also guides how data is persisted.
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