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In this article I demonstrate how to provision Linux based EC2 Virtual Private Servers along with Elastic Block Storage (EBS) Volumes using Terraform. Then I complete the use case by demonstrating how to mount the EBS volume devices on Linux XFS filesystems.
In this article I demonstrate "How To" use Terraform to provision an AWS EMR Cluster along with establish Read Only S3 Bucket access for consuming data from another AWS Account.
In this article I present the concepts of AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Endpoints through simple examples of setting up and consuming AWS services made explicitly accessible through VPC endpoints.
In this article I present a demonstration of how one can use Cloud Watch Metrics and Alarms to monitor CPU Utilization for an AWS RDS database consisting of a primary read/write instance and a read-only replica.
In this article I discuss the benefits of architecting observability into your AWS Aurora PostgreSQL deployments through the use of CloudWatch Logs, Metric Filters, and Alarms.
In this article I capture a plethora of Kafka CLI commands that I've found useful. It is my goal to capture them here to serve as a cheatsheet of commands for myself and others to draw from.
In this article I demonstrate how one can deploy a Spring Boot app the AWS Cloud with ECS and Fargate then used the Spring Boot Actuator project along with CloudWatch and AWS Lambda to modify runtime configuration in an event driven automated fashion.
In this article I demonstrate how to use the AWS Parameter Store to decouple and externalize configuration for a Spring Boot application.
A look into the what and why of software refactoring
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