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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …