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Summary Most AWS microservice articles only show you the tip of the iceberg. We certainly can't blame the article authors. For starters, the SAM squirrel mascot is so darned cute! But more importantly, we all know that standing up a production web service involves far more considerations than you could ever cover...

In a previous post, I mentioned that in order to have a successful DevOps experience, there were some key components and principles that need to be implemented. In this post, I'll cover those components in more detail....

What I want to cover in this post is the experience that I had transitioning from a traditional development role to DevOps and what I learned to be useful in that transition. One of the nice things that I experienced with DevOps was that it pushes developers to take more ownership of their...

But with so many different options available to configure how your Docker containers talk to each other, how do you get started?  In this article, we will take a look at a basic set of containers needed to stand up your own Docker registry (a must if you want to share your...

ActiveMQ is a great messaging broker. However, using the default configuration is not recommended. This article will explain how I determined the appropriate ActiveMQ memory settings for one of our partners. I recently helped a partner with a production issue involving a large java web application that used ActiveMQ as the...

Recently I decided it was time to grab up a spare computer that I could use for tinkering as well as back up files from my other machine in the event that it goes down. The one big thing I wanted to do was to install a Linux OS and...

Another, more global, method of load balancing is Anycast. Anycast is an addressing strategy often used in DNS where hosts in multiple geographical locations represent the same IP address. This balances workload because any request is routed to the closest host (as determined by the routing protocol). In the event...