How the Application Load Balancer works

Load Balancers are a key component in scalable and fault tolerant architectures. The basic idea is fairly simple, but the implementation involves a fair bit of complexity. In this post I‘ll explain the different components, how they interact, and how requests flow through a load-balanced architecture.

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Building a Fargate-based container app with Cognito Authentication

In this post I’m going to show you how to use Cognito User Authentication in combination with a Docker app running in Fargate behind an Application Load Balancer and we’re going to build all this with the Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Why would

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How ALIAS records can reduce initial load times for your website

DNS is a core component of the internet. In this post we’ll briefly take a look at how it works and what the difference between CNAME and ALIAS records in Amazon Route53 are.

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CDK Infrastructure Testing - Part 2a - Implement Unit, Integration and Application Test for CDK Infrastructure and an EC2 Web Server Application

With CDK you create Infrastructure as Code - IaC. You can automate the test for the IaC code. The three test tastes -Unit, Integration and Application- should work closely together. Here I show you how. It is like the three steps of coffee tasting: 1 sme

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Misbehaved

Designer Skin Misbehaved Solarium Creme - Zeit, Risiken einzugehen und verrückt zu spielen mit dieser fantastischen luxuriösen 70 x Color Frenzy Fusion. DAS IST FARBE! Und der Microbiome Balancer arbeitet daran deinen Hautzustand zu verbessern.

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CDK Infrastructure Testing - Part 2b - Unit, Integration and Application Test for Serverless Lambda Functions

After describing the context of the test pyramid for Infrastructure as Code in part 1, and the Web Application in Part 2a - let`s apply that to some Lambda function.

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