aerben.me

Welcome! My name is Alex and this is a blog about interesting things I stumbled upon while writing software. Feel free to drop me a message on a channel of your choice. Have fun browsing!

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• 2018-02-08
  DynamoDB Global Secondary Index Autoscaling with Cloudformation
• If you want to set up DynamoDB as code and are stuck at the autoscaling part, I got you covered!
• 2017-12-02
  Deploy a Java app as Docker container on AWS with Maven (Part 2)
• Part 2 describes all steps necessary to deploy docker containers from images managed in AWS ECR to EC2 instances.
• 2017-11-19
  Deploy a Java app as Docker container on AWS with Maven (Part 1)
• Deploying docker containers to AWS is fun and there are many possible ways to do so. Here, I explore a simple approach for Java applications that uses Spotify's dockerfile-maven plugin. Part 1 describes all steps necessary to publish docker images to AWS ECR.
• 2017-11-16
  Thanks, GitHub!
• GitHub is full of wonders. It just launched a new interesting feature that tries to make the world a bit safer.
• 2017-11-11
  Using Spark for Java Microservices
• There are many options for writing Java Microservices. Here, I will start to explore the most minimal of possible approaches - the Spark Framework.
• 2017-09-19
  Switching bluetooth on and off on macOS via Spotlight
• My new headphones keep connecting to my MacBook even though it is in stand-by mode. But I hacked my way around this issue.