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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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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.

Sep 27, 2017 - 6 min read
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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 generates customer trust.

Sep 19, 2017 - 6 min read