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Author: Sascha Moellering
Sascha Möllering has been working for more than eight years as a Solutions Architect and Solutions Architect Manager at Amazon Web Services EMEA in the German branch. He shares his expertise with a focus on Automation, Infrastructure as Code, Distributed Computing, Containers, and JVM in regular contributions to various IT magazines and posts. He can be reached at smoell@amazon.de.
Writing Custom Metrics to Amazon CloudWatch Using the AWS SDK for Java
Metrics measure the performance of your system. Several AWS services provide free metrics, such as the CPU usage of an Amazon EC2 instance. You can create Amazon CloudWatch alarms based on metrics and send Amazon SNS messages when the alarm state changes. You can use this mechanism to implement elastic scaling if the message is […]
Event-driven architecture using Scala, Docker, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, and the AWS SDK for Java (Part 2)
In the first part of this blog post, we used the AWS SDK for Java to create a Scala application to write data in Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Dockerized the application, and then tested and verified the application is working. Now we will roll out our Scala application in Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) and use […]
Event-driven architecture using Scala, Docker, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, and the AWS SDK for Java (Part 1)
The key to developing a highly scalable architecture is to decouple functional parts of an application. In the context of an event-driven architecture, those functional parts are single-purpose event processing components (“microservices”). In this blog post, we will show you how to build a microservice using Scala, Akka, Scalatra, the AWS SDK for Java, and Docker. […]