Last updated on June 19th, 2026 at 01:31 pmIn this guide, you’ll learn how Amazon EKS autoscaling works using the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA), and Karpenter. We’ll simulate a traffic spike to demonstrate how Kubernetes automatically scales pods, optimizes resource requests, and provisions new EC2 nodes when cluster capacity is exhausted. […]

Last updated on June 5th, 2026 at 08:22 pmHave you ever wished you could wrap a few lines of Python into something smarter—something that plays nicely with LLMs and developer tools like Amazon Q Developer or Cline? That’s where FastMCP comes in. In this post, we’ll build a super-lightweight MCP server using fastmcp, and run […]

Last updated on April 28th, 2026 at 12:09 pmI set up this deployment pipeline using GitLab CI/CD with Amazon ECS Fargate and CodeDeploy to achieve zero-downtime deployments. While the overall setup works well, there are a few parts that are not obvious when you first try it – especially around task definition updates and how […]

If you’re working with Amazon ECS and want to expose your containerized app to the internet via a Load Balancer, you’re in the right place. In this guide, I’ll walk you through the exact steps to deploy your ECS service with an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and expose a custom port, like 8080, using either […]