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.
Read MoreFrom 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.
Read MoreCloudWatch Logs Insights: 8 Queries I Reuse in Production
This post is for teams already shipping workloads to AWS who reach for the CloudWatch console when something breaks—but re-type the same Logs Insights query from memory every time. It is not a replacement for APM or full distributed tracing, and it assumes your apps write structured or semi-structured logs to CloudWatch.
Read MoreTerraform Module Layout I Use for Multi-Environment AWS
This post is for teams already running Terraform in AWS who have felt the pain of three “similar but not quite the same” environment folders. It is not a Terraform 101 tutorial, and it assumes you know what a module, variable, and remote state backend are.
Read MoreGitHub 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.
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