A methodology to improve system resilience — Introduction The practice of “Chaos Engineering” sounds cool, edgy, and risky. In reality, it is the very opposite. It is a controlled, cautious, and scientific discipline that aims to improve the resilience of software systems. …

A coarse-grained view of micro-frontends and their trade-offs — Introduction In software engineering, one of the most important technical decisions you can make is the method of partitioning a project’s architecture. The consequences of this decision cascade, so you must get this right! Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet solution as the correct decision depends on your context. …

Software Engineering is a fast evolving field that is transformed repeatedly as new tools, frameworks and languages emerge. I believe that being a successful in this context requires a growth mindset. Namely, the belief that one’s abilities can be continuously developed versus conceiving abilities as innate and fixed. …

Implemented with TypeScript, HTTPS, a CDN, CI/CD with Buddy and your own domain name. What we will be building: Our React application will be: Hosted on AWS S3 Distributed around the world with AWS CloudFront’s CDN, Have a domain name through AWS Route 53 Have HTTPS enabled through certificates provided by AWS Certificate Manager Built…

Go from creating a simple Node app to having it containerized, load-balanced, and deployed — In this post, I will guide you through the process of deploying a Node app on AWS ECS with Terraform. Guide Overview We will follow these steps: Create a simple Node app and run it locally. Dockerize the Node app. Create an image repository on AWS ECR and push the image. Create…

Using AWS VPC, subnets, auto-scaling, load balancing, PostgreSQL, and EC2 — Today, I am going to show you how to build a highly available, secure and fault-tolerant application on AWS. We will be building this application together from first principles: The components are as follows: (Don’t worry if you are not familiar with these terms, we will be going through this…

Let’s try serverless — Introduction A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece detailing how you can build a serverless API entirely through the AWS console UI: How To Build a Serverless API With DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and API Gateway AWS all the things!medium.com In practise, you’d never actually build a production application this way, but it’s an excellent learning experience to do so. Using infrastructure as code (IaC) is the proper…

AWS, Buddy, TravisCI, CircleCI, and GitLab — Last week, I wrote five different articles about CI/CD services. In each article, I took this Node application and deployed it to AWS with a different CI/CD service. See the individual posts below: How To Build Your First CI/CD Pipeline With Buddy A guide to continuously integrating and deploying your Dockerised Node.js app to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Buddymedium.com

A guide to continuously integrating and deploying your Dockerised Node app to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Travis — Introduction This piece has two goals: To be a standalone guide to building a CI/CD pipeline with Travis To form part of a larger series of articles that compare various CI/CD services The repository hosting the project tested and deployed with Travis can be found on GitHub. It’s a small Node/Express…