Reading Time: 3 minutes In our last blog, we have seen the serverless introduction, Continuing that in this blog we will implement serverless using AWS lambda. AWS Lambda is a compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. AWS Lambda executes your code only when needed and scales automatically, from a few requests per day to thousands per second.
Reading Time: 2 minutes What is Serverless computing? The “serverless” bit doesn’t actually mean that there are no servers required to run the new feature. It just means that we don’t have to deal with the infrastructure.That means we don’t have to worry about scaling, multi-server communication and other problems related to distributed systems. Lambdas do everything for us! Serverless can also mean applications where some amount of server-side Continue Reading
Reading Time: < 1 minute Hi all, Knoldus had organized half an hour session on 27th January 2017 at 4:00 PM. Topic was Walk-through on Amazon ECS. Many enthusiasts joined and learned from the session. Below are slide and video from the session. Please let me know if you have any questions/concerns. Slide: Video : Thanks !! 🙂
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this blog we will consider simple steps by which we can attach and mount a volume(elastic block store) to an ec2 instance. Following steps must be followed : Step 1 -> Creating an ec2 instance We will be creating a Linux instance (m4.large) which comes with Cent OS as the default operating system. Steps of creating an instance are clearly mentioned in official amazon docs, Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes In my previous blog posts on AWS (Introduction to Amazon ECS | Launch Amazon ECS cluster | Scaling with Amazon ECS | Deploy updated Task definition/Docker image), I had given an overview about what is Amazon ECS with a walk-through on how to launch Amazon ECS and then deploy sample app by creating a task definition, scheduling tasks and configuring a cluster and to scale Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes In my previous blog posts on AWS (Launch Amazon ECS cluster and scaling with Amazon ECS), I had explained how to deploy sample app by creating a task definition, scheduling tasks and configuring a cluster on Amazon ECS and to scale in / scale out the same. In this I will guide you how to create a new revision for the existing task definition to use Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes In my last post regarding AWS, I had explained how to launch Amazon ECS cluster including cloud formation, VPC and subnet creation, ELB and ECS security group creation, auto scaling group, launch configuration, elastic load balancer creation with the help of sample app by creating a task definition, scheduling tasks and configuring a cluster through Amazon ECS First Run Wizard. In this blog, I will Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes In my last post, I had explained what is Amazon ECS? Its features and about the main components that are required to start using Amazon EC2 Container Service. In this blog, I will give you a walk-through of launching EC2 container instances through Amazon ECS First Run Wizard, in which I will deploy the sample application provided by Amazon. We can start using Amazon ECS Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes What is Amazon ECS (EC2 Container Service)? Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports containers and allows you to easily run and manage Docker enabled applications across a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. And now you guys are thinking, but what does that mean? It means that the same Docker containers that you currently use will Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes AWS IAM roles is a web service which gives you secured “Control Access” to AWS services for your users. IAM policies specify which services/actions are allowed or denied. You attach policies to group, users, roles which are then subject to permission that you define. In other words, IAM policies define what your user can do to your AWS services. IAM is Identity and Access management Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes Now a days people with multiple mobile device is growing. These people might use their phone on the go and their tablet when they at home. Consequently, they now want to be able to seamlessly transition from one device to another. AWS Cognito Sync functionality to synchronise user data across an end user’s devices. Imagine your app allows end user to add or bookmark link/data. Continue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes In this blog , I will share my experience on building scalable, distributed and fault-tolerant Analytics engine using Scala, Akka, Play, Kafka and ElasticSearch. I would like to take you through the journey of building an analytics engine which was primarily used for text analysis. The inputs were structured, unstructured and semi-structured data and we were doing a lot of data crunching using it. The Analytics Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes playing-aws-scala The following blog and attached code represent a simple example of Amazon Web Services in the Scala way with Play Framework using AWScala but in this blog I have implemented only Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) functionalities. AWScala: AWS SDK on the Scala REPL AWScala enables Scala developers to easily work with Amazon Web Services in the Scala way. Though AWScala objects basically Continue Reading
