Have your http calls ever been throttled by AWS? If not, congratulations! And if you are curious about what it looks like, here you go: Below is what AWS says about the EC2 request rate limits. The same principal applies to other AWS services, e.g Autoscaling group, in which I encountered the rate exceeded problem. … Continue reading Code smartly to avoid exceed AWS request rate
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Run autoscaling group on spot instance in a smart way
Spot fleet is good, but it may not fit every use case. E.g you can not easily shutdown the non-prod environment with spot fleet, due to its scalable target only allows 1 - 3000. In some scenarios, running autoscaling group on spot instance is a better way to go. And essentially, it is all about the … Continue reading Run autoscaling group on spot instance in a smart way
Akamai-Bot
I received good feedbacks since shared the SSSG-Ninja in Akamai community, so I decided to share another useful tool that I ever built before. Akamai-Bot is a Hubot based automation bot that allows users to perform some Akamai daily tasks simply by chatting. Here are some examples. If you are interested, here is the git … Continue reading Akamai-Bot
SSSG Ninja
SSSG Ninja is my new open source project - It is a all-in-one managemenet tool for SSSG (Site Shield Security Group), it not only makes recommendations but also can do the jobs for you. If you are interested to try, it can be found in my Github repo. Here are current supported features: Make recommendations based … Continue reading SSSG Ninja
Bamboo plan for AWS build part 4
Swap URL: This is for blue/green deployment. The idea is to update the floating DNS to point to different stack's ELB CNAME. It allows us to easily divert the traffics to different backend stack, but keep it transparent to users. Cloudformation snippet "Resources": { "Route53DNSRecord": { "Properties": { "Comment": "Floating DNS Record", "HostedZoneName": { "Fn::Join": … Continue reading Bamboo plan for AWS build part 4
Jackie Chen's IT Workshop 