Speed up Docker Image Building with the CDK

When building docker images with the CDK you might notice increasing build times on subsequent invocations of cdk synth. Depending on your setup, there might be a simple solution to that problem - using a .dockerignore file. In this post I’m going to briefly explain how and why that’s useful and may help you.

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DevContainers on Windows without Docker for Desktop

A while ago, Docker changed licensing terms for their Docker Desktop product. As a result, many companies cannot use Docker for free anymore, which impacts using VSCode DevContainers. In this blog, I will show you how to solve these licensing issues by us

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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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R can not be pushed in Production - deprecated!

Running Shiny on Fargate Some guys still thinking R cannot be used at scale or only in a limited way. I still do not understand the reason why people are like this. Since my last post about AWS Batch, which is a Docker-based service within AWS, which enab

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Building Lambda with terraform

Building Lambda Functions with Terraform Introduction Many of us use Terraform to manage our infrastructure as code. As AWS users, Lambda functions tend to be an important part of our infrastructure and its automation. Deploying - and especially building

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Building a Serverless Webapp with Amplify and Quasar - Day 2

I was helping a customer with a Amplify App. This later turned into a meetup, where we are building a photo sorting application using AWS Amplify for the backend and Quasar for the frontend. This is the second article in a series that lets you follow alon

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