Anton Kropp
Posts by Anton Kropp
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Productionalizing ECS
In January of last year we decided as a company to move towards containerization and began a migration to move onto AWS ECS. We pushed to move to containers, and off of AMI based VM deployments, in order to speed up our deployments, simplify our build tooling (since it only has to work on containers), get the benefits of being able to run our production code in a sandbox even locally on our dev machines (something you can’t really do easily with AMI’s), and lower our costs by getting more out of the resources we’re already paying for.
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Tracing High Volume Services
We like to think that building a service ecosystem is like stacking building blocks. You start with a function in your code. That function is hosted in a class. That class in a service. That service is hosted in a cluster. That cluster in a region. That region in a data center, etc. At each level there’s a myriad of challenges.
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From Thrift To Finatra
There are a million and one ways to do (micro-)services, each with a million and one pitfalls. At Curalate, we’ve been on a long journey of splitting out our monolith into composable and simple services. It’s never easy, as there are a lot of advantages to having a monolith. Things like refactoring, code-reuse, deployment, versioning, rollbacks, are all atomic in a monolith. But there are a lot of disadvantages as well. Monoliths encourage poor factoring, bugs in one part of the codebase force rollbacks/changes of the entire application, reasoning about the application in general becomes difficult, build times are slow, transient build errors increase, etc.
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