Software Development
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Workshop: Explore the foundations of AWS containers
This is a workshop that guides you through the process of using AWS Copilot to deploy microservices on AWS
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Migrating Fargate service quotas to vCPU-based quotas
Official AWS blog about new vCPU based quotas for AWS Fargate
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Workshop: AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) x ECS Service Extensions
This is a workshop from re:Invent 2021 about how to use AWS Cloud Development Kit + Amazon ECS Service Extensions. It leads you through deploying a complete microservices architecture for a …
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Workshop: Deploy your first container to AWS Fargate using AWS Copilot
This is a workshop from re:Invent 2021 about how to use AWS Copilot to deploy your first container to AWS Fargate. It introduces a simple Node.js application, how to containerize it, and …
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Is YAML a real programming language?
A few days ago I wrote an article about common misconceptions on AWS Cloud Development Kit. In that article I made the following statement: “YAML is definitely a real programming language.
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Open Source RFC: AWS CDK module for an extendable ECS service construct
This is a public request for comments (RFC) that I wrote for the open source AWS Cloud Development Kit project. At the time of posting the implementation for this RFC is a pull request I …
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AWS CDK + AWS App Mesh demo
Created a demo application that combines AWS CDK and AWS App Mesh. It has a custom construct you can use to easily launch an Amazon ECS service that is part of a mesh
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Container Office Hours: Developing a Container App with AWS Cloud Development Kit
Containers are a powerful tool for packaging your application and running it in the cloud. In this session I took a look at the Amazon Cloud Development Kit and used it to build and deploy a …
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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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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 …
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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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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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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:
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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 …
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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 …