Dave ClarkinLoyaltyLion EngineeringMonitoring thousands of RabbitMQ queues with DatadogThe built-in RabbitMQ check included with Datadog doesn’t work well when RabbitMQ has a lot of queues; in our experience, at 10,000+…Nov 24, 20201Nov 24, 20201
Dave ClarkinLoyaltyLion EngineeringLoad balanced PgBouncer service on Amazon ECSPgBouncer is a great tool for pooling database connections and keeping connection logic in one place. With a Network Load Balancer and…Oct 3, 2018Oct 3, 2018
Dave ClarkinLoyaltyLion EngineeringRenaming a consul datacenterThis is simple enough to do, but requires the entire cluster to be taken offline for a short time. The KV store and ACL tokens will remain…Jul 7, 2017Jul 7, 2017
Dave ClarkinLoyaltyLion EngineeringRunning an interactive console on Amazon ECSRunning and attaching to an interactive console on Amazon ECS is just a bit clunky. The simplest option is to SSH into a container instance…Jun 13, 20175Jun 13, 20175
Dave ClarkinLoyaltyLion EngineeringRendering arbitrary content with VarnishExample scenario: you use Varnish, and have some misbehaving third-party JS which is currently spamming your server with 404s for…May 3, 2017May 3, 2017
Dave ClarkinLoyaltyLion EngineeringHow to use Amazon EFS with EC2 containersUsing EFS (Elastic File Storage) is a natural fit for ECS (EC2 Container Service) if you have any data you want to persist across…May 2, 2017May 2, 2017
Dave ClarkinLoyaltyLion EngineeringUsing Docker and OverlayFS on Amazon ECSIf you’re using the ECS-optimised Amazon Linux AMI for your ECS instance hosts, the Docker engine on these instances will be using the…May 2, 2017May 2, 2017