Cloud Run is a serverless application platform, which means apps deployed there can’t be expected to be running all the time and therefore won’t work with the default “pull” subscription type. A push subscription calls an HTTP endpoint, which is how a Cloud Run service is triggered. There are examples…

How a look beyond inadequate energy infrastructure for the cause of weather-related tragedy can identify other causes of human suffering — As a resident of Austin, I naturally have thought a lot about the recent historic, unprecedented, record-breaking, rather odd winter storms and ensuing losses of life and property. Some people simply blame Republicans, which is somewhat fair and certainly was amplified by infamous narcissist Ted Cruz’s politically-puzzling vacation during the…

Gardening as a metaphor for developing software was, as far as I can tell, first mentioned by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas in their 1999 book, The Pragmatic Programmer. When it first occurred to me to write on the topic, I hadn’t heard the idea before, as I haven’t yet…

I’m an individual contributor. I don’t know how companies are started or how they’re kept running. I’m happy in front of a screen building things out of keywords, curly brackets, and SubjectPhrasesPutTogetherLikeThis. I’ve also worked at about a half dozen “startup” companies, some tiny, some in the throes of a…

Previously on E.R., I described an integration line from API Gateway to a VPC Link. Laying the Rails from AWS API Gateway to ECS Fargate | Part I A guide to building network pathways in Terraform between two incompatible resourcesmedium.com This second part will cover the rest, from the Network Load Balancer to ECS Tasks. Let’s jump in. Network Load Balancer Rationale Why connect API Gateway to a Network Load Balancer and not directly to an Application Load Balancer…

A guide to building network pathways between two incongruous products (with Terraform) — Obsolescence Notice On March 12, Amazon published “Building faster, lower cost, better APIs — HTTP APIs now generally available.” With that, I recommend that readers who wish to integrate API Gateway with an ALB ignore the instructions in this article involving an NLB and a target updater function. Instead, the VPC Link…

As a long-time fan of classic The Simpsons, when I need an analogy to help a colleague or myself to comprehend a subject, I find it natural to make use of characters and situations from the show. …