Since EKS is pretty new, there aren’t a lot of howtos on it yet. I wanted to follow along with Amazon’s Getting started with EKS & Kubernetes Guide. However, I didn’t want to use cloudformation. We all know Terraform is far superior! With that, I went to work getting it going. And a learned a few…
How I setup wordpress to deploy automatically on aws You want to make your wordpress site bulletproof? No server outage worries? Want to make it faster & more reliable. And also host on cheaper components? I was after all these gains & also wanted to kick the tires on some of Amazon’s latest devops offerings….
More and more startups are looking at Redshift as a cheaper & faster solution for big data & analytics. Saggi Neumann posted a pretty good side-by-side comparison of Redshift & Hadoop and concluded they were tied based on your individual use case. Meanwhile, Bitly Engineering concluded Redshift was much easier. Why Should You Choose Redshift Outpacing Hadoop…
I’ve worked with close to 200 startups over the years. So, I’ve seen a lot of stuff. Some of the get-rich-quick managed to get broke even quicker. And others saw great engineers leave behind a clunky maze of an architecture with little or no documentation. Here in this guide, I’m going to share some factors…
If you’re building anything in the public cloud these days, you’re probably using some automation. There are a lot of ways to reach the goal posts and a lot of tools to choose from. In my case I’ve put Terraform to use over and over again. I’m built vpcs, public & private subnets, and bastion…
I was just reading the Register, which is sort of the UK’s version of Slashdot, and they had a jaw-dropping title. NASA moved 247 petabytes into AWS and then later learned about EGRESS costs OMG! Facepalm. Wow. To say this is a disaster is an understatement. Could it have been prevented? Not likely by 100% strategic…
I know everyone is talking about the pandemic at the moment, so I thought I would sidestep the topic, and continue to discuss what I know best. Which is the public cloud! Of late, I see more and more discussions on CTO forums, and in the news on surprise AWS bills. Did you hear what happened…
ECS is Amazon’s elastic container service. If you have a dockerized app, this is one way to get it deployed in the cloud. It is basically an Amazon bootleg Kubernetes clone. And not nearly as feature-rich! That said, ECS does work, and it will allow you to get your application going on Amazon. Soon enough…
I was recently talking with a colleague of mine about where AWS is today. Obviously, these companies are migrating to EC2 & the cloud rapidly. The growth rates are staggering. The question was… “What’s good and bad with Amazon today?” It’s an interesting question. I think there are some dirty little secrets here, but also…
I was flipping through the AWS Reddit channel and found this excellent presentation from RE: Invent by Laura Grit. She’s in charge of Amazon Retail and worked very closely with teams on migrating to AWS. She goes in-depth on what that cost in terms of development, what it saved in terms of unused capacity, and surprisingly operational…