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AWS re:Invent 2018: Running a High-Performance Kubernetes Cluster with Amazon EKS

I gave this talk at re:Invent 2018, about tips and tricks for running high performance workloads in a Kubernetes cluster: I was joined by Yekesa Yosuru of State Street, who did a live demo of an Amazon EKS Kubernetes cluster running Vitess at an impressive 1.

Nov 29, 2018 - 54 min watch
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AWS re:Invent 2018: Operations for Containerized Applications

I gave this presentation on operations for containerized application with Tiffany Jernigan: Downloads operations-for-containerized-applications.pdf (1729 kb)

Nov 28, 2018 - 1 min read
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Migrating your Amazon ECS deployment to the new ARN and resource ID format

Launch blog for a new Amazon ECS format for resource ARN's. This new format enabled new ECS features, but required a migration process to opt in

Nov 15, 2018 - Official AWS Blog
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Scaling a Containerized Application Seamlessly with AWS Fargate

An AWS Tech Talk to introduce AWS Fargate. I start with a simple introduction to container orchestration concepts. Then I dive deeper into the resource types and configuration options available to you when using AWS Fargate, including a deep dive into the networking aspects.

Nov 14, 2018 - 37 min watch
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Setting up AWS PrivateLink for Amazon ECS, and Amazon ECR

I significantly refactored the official Linkerd 1.x instructions to make it much easier to deploy a Linkerd service mesh on Amazon ECS

Oct 3, 2018 - Linkerd Docs
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AWS Summit New York: Running Kubernetes on AWS

At the New York AWS Summit, I was live on Twitch at the AWS Launchpad with Abby Fuller, and Arun Gupta, talking about running Kubernetes on AWS:

Jul 19, 2018 - 18 min watch
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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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AWS Summit London: Running Kubernetes on AWS

At the London AWS Summit, I was live on Twitch at the AWS Launchpad with Abby Fuller, and Adrian Hornsby, talking about running Kubernetes on AWS:

May 9, 2018 - 18 min watch
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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