Hi, I'm Cole. I'm a Software and DevOps Engineer based out of Los Angeles, CA teaching what I know as I go! This is a log of my Tech Guides and Thoughts. Thanks for reading!
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Overview In this post we're going to cover two things: Setting up unified CloudWatch logging in conjunction with AWS ECS and our Docker containers. Setting up SSM and Enabling the ability to run one bash command across multiple EC2 container instances simultan…
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We don't need to upgrade our frameworks and packages every single time they change. Even if the update has a whole army of shiny new things. And I'm serious, we really don't. I'm particularly referencing the Javascript world and even more specifically front…
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This is a cross post from a Quora question that I answered. I figured I'd give it some love on my blog since I wound up putting a lot more thought into it than intended. Services based nowadays. a) and API server built on either ExpressJS + package soup or Lo…
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This post is going to cover the following: Setting up a Strongloop Loopback and MySQL local environment with Docker Hooking up our environment with docker-compose Scaffolding out some base models Automating Database Migrations and Updates via Loopback Protecti…
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Table of Contents: Overview Setting Up Our Docker Image Pushing Our Docker Image to AWS ECR and Setting up the ECS Cluster Creating the IAM Roles Configuring Security Groups for Our ECS Container Instances and Application Load Balancer Defining the Launch Conf…
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So let's setup a workflow here that satisfies the following statements: a) I would like to use create-react-app because I have no desire to micromanage webpack OR boilerplates. b) I would like to use SASS/SCSS and also have it easily convert to…
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So you have a Rails application (we're going to assume Rails 4.X here) that uses the traditional setup. You create a resource /things that of course has an index action and its associated show actions (/things/:id). Like all rails apps, the template…
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I'll be covering the following in this tutorial: Setting up Angular and Rails 4.1 Using Bower to manage front end dependencies Getting UI Router setup and running Setting up Bootstrap via Bower with Rails Doing the two above in HTML5 Mode for SEO benefits Disc…