DZone released a new guide: Cloud Native Development & Deployment. I’m proud that my article Serverless Architectures on AWS is part of the free ebook as well. Key takeaways from my article A serverless platform allows you to run your application including computing, storing, and networking without the need of spinning up and managing a […]
Archives for February 2017
New CloudFormation Templates – ECS Cluster & Service, legacy VPC wrapper, automated tests
We released v3 of our free and open source CloudFormation templates. This release brings: new templates for containerized workload with ECS new templates to wrap an existing VPC into the format that is needed by all our templates test suite that we run on every commit to ensure that the templates are still working you […]
AWS Velocity Series: Running your application
There are many options when it comes to running an application on AWS. EC2 based, containerized, or serverless. Choosing the best option for your specific use case is important. All options that I present are what I call production-ready: Highly available: no single point of failure Scalable: increase or decrease the number of instances based […]
AWS Velocity Series: CI/CD Pipeline as Code
The Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment pipeline is a major section of your software assembly line. It starts with the code repository and ends with the deployment into your production environment. CI/CD includes many steps that all depend on each other. That’s why this is a valuable area for automation. The CI/CD pipeline does the […]
Free ebook: Exploring Cloud Computing
Exploring Cloud Computing is a collection of hand-picked chapters presenting five topics that will give you insights into the world of cloud computing. Michael and I, authors of Amazon Web Services in Action, selected these particular topics allowing you to explore Cloud Computing. Get a free copy now! The ebook contains the following chapters: What […]
AWS Velocity Series: Local development environment
The local development environment is where you make changes to the source code, edit configuration files, add images, and so on. You also want to run the app locally, execute the tests, and be able to debug your source code. In this article you will learn how to setup a Node.js project from scratch with: […]