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How I do local Docker development for my AWS Fargate application

This is part four in an ongoing series on developing an application that runs in AWS Fargate: Deploying the initial application skeleton to AWS Fargate Making the application horizontally autoscale in AWS Fargate Building a continuous integration / deployment pipeline In this article I’ll explore how to create a local development environment that lets me write code and test it in a container prior to using my CI/CD pipeline to deploy to the container to my production AWS Fargate environment.

May 22, 2018 - 10 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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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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Moving from Monolith to Microservices with Amazon ECS

I developed a tutorial on how to containerize a monolithic application, break it up into various microservices, and deploy them using Amazon Elastic Container Service:

Jan 5, 2018 - 14 min watch