CDK - Diving deeper into the code

In the last post we setup a simple CDK project that resulted in creation of dynamodb table. Let us analyze the code further.

CDK - Making CloudFormation easier

 In the previous post I created my first AWS Resource using AWS CloudFormation. This was done using a JSON file called the CloudFormation template.

AWS CloudFormation - my first stack

Before I start - CloudFormation is by far one of the weirdest and coolest things to have come out of AWS. It took me some time to grasp it (and am still grasping) but mann its awesome for AWS users. 

An SNS primer - also Auto Routing SNS messages to different SQS

 It is a standard decoupling pattern to have publishers send their messages to an SNS owned by them. Consumers will setup SQS endpoints that subscribe to SNS and get the messages. However consider that there are many consumers all of whom are interested in different subset of messages sent by the SNS.

Amazon ECS : My first AWS container - Part 2

In the previous post we created a container image for our code and pushed the image onto ECR. In this post, we will setup an ECS application