Systems Architecture
Decoupling services usually involves some form of communication, preferably asynchronous through queues that are populated by one service and consumed by another. AWS SQS offers regular and FIFO queues that help you with exactly that use case, but, as always, the devil is in the details. Depending on how long
Containers
When building the first iteration of the AWS provider for Anzu, I wanted to provide an easy way to deploy containers on AWS ECS. While newer versions of the provider offer low-level resources, back then I believed that one resource could deploy all related dependencies as well. While I strongly
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
An incredibly powerful way of offering a customizable user experience is to allow users to upload media content like images, for profile pictures, or other assets that will be embedded in your product. When you're building a knowledge base for teams, you might want to allow your customers
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
We all have that one domain we want to receive incoming mails on. Whether it's a side project or even the personal domain, being able to forward incoming emails back to our personal inbox can be extremely useful. In most cases, your domain registrar probably offers to forward
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
When running containerized services in Elastic Container Service (ECS), it's often important to know which environment you're running in. While environment variables can be useful to store deployment-related information, knowing the current cluster, task definition, and revision, or simply the availability zone, can prove vital when