Recent podcast episodes
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#22 Messaging on AWS
In this episode, Michael compares the available messaging options on AWS.
The goal of messaging is to decouple the producers of messages from consumers. The messaging pattern allows us t...
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#21 Review: API Gateway HTTP APIs
AWS offers different types of API gateways as a managed service. This review takes a closer look at the new service API Gateway HTTP APIs announced in December 2019 and generally since availabl...
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#20 End-user monitoring of your website with CloudWatch Synthetics
There are countless reasons why your website is not working as your users expect. From a technical point of view, you can monitor your load balancers, your web servers, and your database. But wh...
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#19 Scaling Container Clusters on AWS: ECS and EKS
Containers are a powerful tool to streamline your development and deployment process. However, a container cluster - no matter if you are using ECS (Elastic Container Service), EKS (Elastic Kube...
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#18 CloudFormation vs. Terraform
The most reliable way to automate creating, updating, and deleting your cloud resources is to describe the target state of your infrastructure and use a tool to apply it to the current state of ...
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#17 AWS Account Structure
Using multiple AWS accounts to isolate workloads has been a best practice, not only since AWS introduced consolidated billing in 2010. AWS made a huge step by introducing AWS Organizations in 20...
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#16 CloudWatch Metrics & Alarms reloaded
Amazon CloudWatch improved significantly over the years. It's time to look at its monitoring capabilities again. CloudWatch is an excellent starting point to implement enhanced monitoring on AWS...
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#15 Advanced AWS Networking
AWS offers shiny and powerful networking services. However, you should know about the pitfalls when designing advanced networking architectures for AWS. I will share some pitfalls that came to m...
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#14 What's the best AWS Compute option for your project?
You can run your application on virtual machines using EC2. If you prefer containers, ECS Fargate is your choice. But you can also use the latest Serverless capabilities to run your application ...
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#13 Review: Amazon Connect
Do you provide services to consumer or business clients? Which channels do you provide for clients to get support, leave feedback, or let off frustration?
Amazon Connect provides a conta...