Have you ever wanted to deploy a production-grade application that can handle thousands of kids taking math tests simultaneously without breaking a sweat? Today, we’re diving into exactly how to do that using Terraform, AWS ECS Fargate, and Docker. Say hello to the math-test-app—a Node.js-based math testing platform built for scale and reliability. The Challenge Building […]
Introduction In today’s fast-paced DevOps landscape, having a centralized hub for essential tools and resources can be invaluable. Whether you’re onboarding new team members, sharing best practices, or simply maintaining a quick reference guide for cloud and DevOps tools, a well-organized static website can be the perfect solution. In this post, I’ll walk you through […]
A DevOps guide to troubleshooting the errors that keep you up at night, from CrashLoopBackOff to networking black holes. Kubernetes is the undisputed king of container orchestration. It’s powerful, scalable, and the de facto standard for modern cloud-native applications. But with great power comes great complexity. If you’re in DevOps, you know that a significant part of […]
Look, I’ve been doing this for over a decade. If there’s one thing I know, it’s that the internet is a dumpster fire of malicious requests, and your beautiful, lovingly-crafted application is the target. You can have the cleanest code in the world (you don’t) and the most robust infrastructure (it’s not), but at 3 […]
Kubernetes is the engine of modern cloud infrastructure, but even the best engines sometimes sputter. When a node (the worker machine running your containers) fails, your pods get evicted, and your application availability plummets. Mastering node troubleshooting means quickly identifying the issue behind the cryptic status messages. Here is a playbook covering the most common […]
A deep dive into AWS’s new Regional NAT Gateway — automatic multi-AZ expansion, simplified architecture, and hands-on Terraform implementation Introduction If you’ve ever managed AWS VPC networking at scale, you know the pain: deploying NAT Gateways across multiple Availability Zones means managing separate gateways, public subnets, route tables, and Elastic IPs for each AZ. It’s […]