I Thought Cloud Cost Optimisation Meant Spending Less. Then I built a VPC.
DevOps Journey | AWS | Cloud Cost Optimisation | VPC | Economics
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From Interview Question to Production: Designing and Deploying a Fitness Application on AWS
Introduction There are projects you build to learn a service. Then there are projects you build because you discover a gap in your own experience. This project was the latter. A few months ago, I had
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How I Debugged Empty Job Outputs in GitHub Actions While Deploying Docker Images to Amazon ECR
When building CI/CD pipelines, the error message isn't always where the real problem lies. I recently experienced this while building a deployment pipeline for one of my projects. Terraform successful
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10% CPU Threshold: The Question That Sent Me Down a Rabbit Hole
While reviewing the AWS cost auditing tool I developed with Claude as my AI coding assistant, I noticed that the code was structured to flag EC2 instances whose CPU utilisation fell below 10%. But it
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Learning AWS Cloud Cost Auditing From Scratch
DevOps Journey | AWS | Cloud Cost Optimization
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Automating Microservices Deployment on ECS Fargate with GitHub Actions
Introduction After writing the CloudFormation template, it is time to deploy it using a pipeline automatically. In the previous blog, a Bash script was used to automate the creation of microservice st
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Observability on ECS Fargate: What to Look At and Why It Matters
Introduction When I finished deploying my microservices application, the next step was to know what was happening inside it once it started running. This is what observability is about. It is the abil
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