Terraform code quality - CloudSkiff →

Linting your code, checking for security, compliance and  validity will help you improve your Terraform code quality very easily from hundreds of different resources and cloud providers.

Different ways and tools to maintain your Terraform code quality

An AWS Database Safari - Last Week in AWS →

The simple answer is that different databases support different use cases. After all, “every AWS product is for somebody, and no AWS product is for everybody.”

As name says , quick safari of all the exclusive database services offered by AWS

Containers vs. Serverless - Thoughts About Your Cloud Strategy →

Serverless is an excellent choice for building modern applications. But Containers bring a lot to the table as well. The flexibility of a Container architecture should not be underestimated, especially when it comes to solving complex problems.

This article can serve as a starting point while deciding your new cloud architecture

Windows container workloads in AWS Cloud

You have a Windows Legacy application or compatible version which needs to be part of digital transformation and you cannot afford rewriting the same.So you are left with limited options.

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Container technologies at Coinbase - The Coinbase Blog →

If/when there are significant gains to be had by our engineers by offering Kubernetes (or any other container orchestration platform) we will explore offering them. At this time there is not a significant gain to be had by offering Kubernetes

Kubernetes is not always a best solution for container work loads…

No Code →

That’s why at the end of the article I can only repeat the trivial: always try to understand what’s going on, always look for practical benefits, rather than catchy words, and always try stay in the middle.

Long and interesting post on Nocode vs Coding for building workflows.Also it has many tools which can used instead of coding one yourself.

Capacity Provider for scaling ECS clusters

Before Capacity Providers, we had to make sure that the resources are available up and running before the task could be run.This constraint some times left us with unused capacity or uneven scaling of EC2 resources inside the cluster.

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Speeding up a Git monorepo at Dropbox with <200 lines of code - Dropbox →

We settled on shipping a wrapper on top of Git that would automatically tweak configs and enable fsmonitor for developers (if it wasn’t already turned on) only for a whitelisted set of repositories

Dropbox explains how they improved git performance with fsmonitor

Simplest Dashboard setup for learning Kubernetes

I hope you have built your Kubernetes test cluster using the steps mentioned in the first part Simplest cluster setup for learning Kubernetes.We will now add Dashboard to our cluster which helps us to manage using user interface and have minimal monitoring capacity.

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Building a Kubernetes-based Platform Container Tooling, Progressive Delivery, the Edge, and Observability →

As such, it provides a solid foundation on which to support the other three capabilities of a cloud-native platform: progressive delivery, edge management, and observability. These capabilities can be provided, respectively, with the following technologies: continuous delivery pipelines, an edge stack, and an observability stack.

Nice article to read before planning Kubernetes based architectures,with details on tools,processes etc