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Hybrid Lab-to-Cloud: Map the Data Path Before Building It

The transfer agent was “done.” S3 had objects. Downstream Batch jobs still saw empty prefixes for hours. Nobody could say whether the instrument was late, the poller was stuck, or a completion marker never arrived.

AWS Batch on EC2: a Deployment Checklist

This post is for teams running compute-heavy workloads on AWS Batch with EC2—genomics pipelines, media processing, ETL, simulations—not for “hello world” Fargate tutorials. It assumes you already have a container image, a VPC, and a reason to use Batch instead of ECS or Lambda.

From Varnish and Drupal Tuning to Platform Engineering

In 2013 I wrote about Varnish in front of Drupal and where Drupal sites actually lose performance. The stack was Apache, PHP, MySQL, SSH, and a lot of hand-tuning. Today I work on AWS Batch, multi-region Terraform, and hybrid lab-to-cloud integrations in life sciences. The logos changed; the job did not.

GitHub Actions to ECR to ECS: a Deployment Checklist

This post is for teams already running workloads on Amazon ECS who want a reliable GitHub Actions pipeline without reinventing the wheel each release. It is not a greenfield Kubernetes guide, and it assumes you have a working cluster, service, and task definition—not a blank AWS account.