by truthbrother | Oct 4, 2018 | Amazon Web Services
It is a very interesting time to be a corporate IT administrator. On the one hand, developers are talking about (and implementing) an idyllic future where infrastructure as code, and treating servers and other resources as cattle. On the other hand, legacy systems...
by truthbrother | Sep 26, 2018 | Amazon Web Services, Atlassian
A couple of years ago, Dropbox shocked a lot of people when it decided to mostly drop the public cloud, and built its own datacenters. More recently, Atlassian did the opposite, closing most of its datacenters and moving to the cloud. Companies make these choices for...
by truthbrother | Sep 5, 2018 | Amazon ECS, Amazon Web Services, AWS EKS, AWS Fargate
It is 2018. Most businesses are using containers, some still hesitate to adapt, but who hasn’t heard of containers? Really, containers are not new technology, in fact, they are old technology. A brief summary can be found here, but BSD Jails, Solaris Zones and the...
by truthbrother | Sep 4, 2018 | Amazon Web Services, AWS Fargate
Containers are a powerful way for developers to develop, package, and deploy their applications. At AWS we have over a hundred thousand active ECS clusters and hundreds of millions of new containers started each week. That’s 400+% customer growth since 2016. Container...
by truthbrother | Sep 4, 2018 | Amazon Web Services, AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS and EKS* that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. With AWS Fargate, you no longer have to provision, configure, and scale clusters of virtual machines to run containers. This removes...