A Comprehensive Guide to the Log Aggregation Pattern

In the ever-evolving landscape of software development and operations, efficiently managing logs and extracting meaningful insights from them has become…

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Integrating AWS EKS with Anthos

Introduction Anthos allows you to attach any non-GKE Kubernetes cluster. In this article, I will demonstrate how to attach an…

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Sharing a Secret with a Tomcat Service in ECS

AWS is pretty good, with a lot of documentation. However, often you need to spot the detail you need among…

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Diagrams as Code with Python

 In my career I have noticed that often organizations are reluctant on providing Engineering teams with licenses for software to…

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Going Native

If I look at recent projects, I’ve used various forms of Git, a few variations on Jenkins, and the leading…

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Connecting to Kibana Within an AWS VPC

When you use the managed Elasticsearch service on AWS, you usually choose an encrypted connection (via KMS-managed keys), which means…

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AWS SDK 2 for Java and storing a Json in DynamoDB

AWS DynamoDB is described as a NoSQL key-value and a document database. In my work I mostly use the key-value…

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AWS CodeBuild Error: Unable to access jarfile

Using AWS CodeBuild, I was using a buildspec that was to run an executable JAR file to execute JUnit tests.…

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The Poison Message SQS Problem

AWS’s SQS is a really reliable and performant solution for transporting requests around a system. A couple of years ago,…

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