Cloud Architecture

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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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Speeding up Amazon ECS container deployments

Container orchestration is a complex problem. There are many different components communicating with each other in support of your application container deployment. First the orchestrator starts your application.

Oct 19, 2020 - 10 min read
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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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Making my Socket.io chat app production ready with Vue.js, DynamoDB, CodePipeline, and CodeBuild

This is part three of a series on developing a Socket.io and AWS Fargate powered realtime chat application on AWS. Building a Socket.io chat app and deploying it using AWS Fargate (In part one I just packaged up an open source chat application from socket.

May 7, 2018 - 8 min read
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How to setup Service Discovery in Amazon Elastic Container Service

One of the core benefits of containers is that they enable dynamic deployments. In the old days an application server might stay hosted on the same EC2 server for weeks, months, or even years.

Apr 20, 2018 - 4 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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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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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.

Oct 24, 2017 - 12 min read