Idan Lupinsky's Blog
Static Site Deployment using AWS CloudFront, S3 and the CDK
Learn how to deploy a secure and performant static site using CloudFront, S3 and the Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
Posted February 25, 2022 ‐ 7 min read
ECS Service Auto-Scaling with the CDK
In this article we'll learn how to auto-scale a containerized service on the ECS platform. We'll review the role of the Application Auto-Scaling Service in AWS and use the Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to provision and configure our service.
Posted May 14, 2021 ‐ 14 min read
Python Service Deployment with the CDK, ECS and Fargate
In this article we’ll introduce a framework called the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). We'll use the CDK to model and provision our ECS infrastructure as well as deploy a bare-bones Python service to the ECS cluster.
Posted May 14, 2021 ‐ 12 min read
Application Monitoring with Micrometer, Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch
In this article we'll learn about metrics by building a demo monitoring stack using docker compose. We'll use a Spring Boot application with built-in metrics as our instrumented example. We'll use both Prometheus and CloudWatch Metrics as our chosen monitoring systems. Finally, we'll set up Grafana and prepare a simple dashboard.
Posted May 13, 2021 ‐ 15 min read