If you heard me speak lately or browsed through some of my slidedecks chances are high you've seen this slide and heard me talk about "immutable deployments":
The basic idea is to separate the "disposable" parts of your infrastructure from the "non-disposable" parts (e.g. databases, message queues…
Messaging on AWS
or: "What's the difference between SQS, Kinesis, and SNS?"
One of the core principles of "cloud-native" applications is "loose coupling". Let's explore what AWS has to offer and how they various options differ from each other.
San Francisco AdvancedAWS Meetup, 2016-03-17
What's wrong with AWS OpsWorks?
Let me start with a note: I actually really like OpsWorks. I like getting things done quick and easily and the clean domain model (layers != instances != apps != deployment). We run a couple of Magento stores (medium-sized and large ones) on OpsWorks and we never had any major problems with it. Howe…
